Unlike South Korea, where the powerful labor movement engages in yearly spring and autumn wage campaigns, Taiwan's workers are regarded as hardworking and docile, and maintaining "harmonious industrial relations" has long been the highest guiding principle of ROC labor policy.
台灣的人力素質，在歷來的國際競爭力排行榜上都名列前茅，比起韓國春鬥、秋鬥不斷的強悍工運，台灣勞工勤良溫順，「勞資和諧」一向是勞動政策的最高指導原則。