Labor Welfare I. The Employee Benefit System and Various Worker Benefit Measures In accordance with the "Regulations for Employee Benefit Payments," the business enterprise and the employee jointly set aside employee benefit payments in proportion to the employee's monthly salary. Moreover, both employees and management select from seven to twenty-one representatives to form a employee benefit committee in charge of safekeeping benefit payments and using them to conduct various employee welfare measures. In order to promote harmonious relations between labor and management, the government is urging business enterprises to institute a "shareholder system" by either allocating a certain proportion of operating profits to employees as a form of profit sharing, or allowing employees to buy a certain proportion of stock when capital is increased, or using stock to replace bonuses given to employees. In order to encourage business enterprises to pay attention to the daycare problems faced by employees, the government has drawn up incentive measures aimed at enterprises that are willing to set up childcare (daycare) facilities. II. Preferential Loans for Workers Who Purchase or Renovate Their Homes Among the government's welfare measures aimed at workers are thirty-year long-term loans at subsidized interest rates for workers who purchase new homes and seven-year loans for home renovations. III. Worker Education Measures To address the needs brought about by the rapid transformation of society and the international economy, the government is actively encouraging enterprises to increase the education, knowledge, and skills of their employees. In addition, the government is also cooperating with National Open University and other universities to devise advanced curricula for workers and provide correspondence instruction. In order to encourage workers' further study, the government is subsidizing tuition. IV. Workers' Volunteer Service In order to tap the human resources of the working population and instill a sense of social responsibility among workers, the government is seeking to arouse workers' sense of pride in personal fulfillment, and to this end is energetically promoting workers' volunteer service. The central government is offering incentives and assistance to local governments and business enterprises to organize worker volunteer service groups that will provide a vehicle for worker participation in charitable or public interest activities and thereby foster social harmony and progress. V. Workers' Leisure Activities Greater emphasis on leisure activities is an inevitable trend brought about by social and economic progress. In this light, the government is taking the initiative in planning appropriate measures. Not only is the central government supporting the construction of and installation of more complete recreational facilities in workers' recreation centers by local governments, it is also conducting professional training for worker leisure activity guidance personnel and is providing incentives and assistance for enterprises that are willing to organization leisure activities and clubs. VI. Worker Services The central and local governments are respectively setting up worker service centers staffed by professionals and equipped with telephone hotlines. These centers are able to provide workers with various types of consulting services and are ready at all times to help workers resolve thorny problems. VII. Social Work in Industry The government is vigorously urging business enterprises to place more emphasis on social work and providing incentives for the hiring of professionals able to help resolve workers' social, psychological, and on-the-job adjustment problems through social work methods including career guidance and planning.

Providing Source : Committee of Labor Affairs,The Executive Yuan File Last Revised : Feb. 8. 1996 Contact Phone : 886-2-3565516

           

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