This year's implementation of a policy giving government workers the second and fourth Saturdays of every month off was the first step towards easing into the two-day weekend and reducing the number of working hours on Taiwan. But in order to avoid causing too big a jump in the number of holidays all at once, an action which might have hurt production at local firms, the government simultaneously gave eight memorial holidays the ax.
第一階段自今年初開始，實施每月第二、四周休二日，但是，為了不至於一下子大幅增加假日，影響企業產能，另外刪減了八天紀念節日的假期。