Proposal to grant parents pandemic-leave subsidies
By Chen Yun and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Legislators across party lines yesterday proposed an amendment that would grant COVID-19 pandemic-related leave subsidies to parents, potentially totaling up to NT$10 billion (US$357 million).
The proposal would add a clause to the Special Act for Prevention, Relief and Revitalization Measures for Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens (嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎防治及紓困振興特別條例), allowing workers who have to take unpaid leave to take care of their children who are younger than 12 or attending elementary school to apply for the subsidies.
The subsidy amount would be 60 percent of the recipients’ total insurance payouts for the previous year, estimated at NT$683 per day.
Legislators pledge to support Chunghwa Post staff
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Opposition lawmakers yesterday pledged to help Chunghwa Post employees receive a pay raise that was proposed and approved by the company’s board of directors, adding that they would propose to the legislature’s Transportation Committee that the company should thoroughly enforce an “equal work, equal pay” policy.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷), Taiwan People’s Party Legislator Lai Hsiang-ling (賴香伶), and New Power Party legislators Chiu Hsien-chih (邱顯智) and Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) attended a protest against pay inequality by the Taiwan Postal Industry Union at Chunghwa Post’s headquarters in Taipei.