Unwilling saviors In fact, unemployment insurance is nothing new. In the appendices to the Labor Insurance Act, which came into force in 1958, there is the explicit provision: "Premiums, place and time of implementation and rules for unemployment insurance shall be determined by ordinance of the Executive Yuan."
其實，失業保險不是新鮮事，早在民國四十七年頒佈的「勞保條例」附則中，就明文規定「失業保險之保險費率、實施地點、時間及辦法，由行政院以命令定之」。