More workers furloughed last week, ministry says
Staff writer, with CNA
The number of furloughed workers increased slightly in the past week, while declining on a monthly basis, the Ministry of Labor said yesterday.
As of Friday, 4,451 workers agreed to take unpaid leave, up 249 from 4,202 reported on Monday last week, while the number of furloughed workers declined on a monthly basis, from 6,400 in December last year to about 4,400 last month, ministry data showed.
Meanwhile, the number of companies offering unpaid leave programs increased by 25 to 406, the data showed.
The manufacturing sector recorded the largest number of furloughed workers at 1,713, up from 1,575 the previous week, ahead of the transportation and warehousing sector with 1,030, and the retail and wholesale industry with 725, the ministry said.
Taipei, Jan. 18 (CNA) The number of furloughed workers in Taiwan increased in one week as the COVID-19 pandemic imposed a further adverse impact on the local service sector, the Ministry of Labor (MOL) said on Monday.
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Number of furloughed workers edges down
12/16/2020 03:46 PM
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Taipei, Dec. 16 (CNA) The number of furloughed workers in Taiwan dropped by 132 from the previous week to 5,935, with the machine tool manufacturing sector seeing the largest decline, data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Labor (MOL) showed.
Meanwhile, the number of employers on unpaid leave programs totaled 450 as of Dec. 15, down one from a week earlier, the data indicated.
Although the past week saw a slight decrease in the total number of furloughed workers, the number of employers implementing unpaid leave programs in the support services sector, such as travel agencies, increased by five, as travel restrictions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic remain in place, according to Department of Labor Standards and Equal Employment Deputy Director Huang Wei-chen (黃維琛).