On May Day this year, ROC Premier Vincent Siew made three promises to Taiwan's workforce. The first was that the statutory working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours; the second, that the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) would be upgraded to a Ministry of Labor.
今年勞動節，行政院蕭院長開了三張大支票送給勞工朋友：一是將法定工時從四十八小時縮短為四十四小時，二是將勞委會升格為勞動部。