2011.01.30 UPDATES with Session Summary
Hello!
Here are the details of our next TAIWAN ISSUES in ACTION session:
Date/Time: Sat 22 Jan 2011, 1330-1530
Place: 2F., No.9, Nanjing W. Rd. (The easiest way is to take the MRT red line to Zhongshan station Exit 4--only a 10-second walk from Exit 4!) It is the Lion Publishing Co. Art School.
Topic: S/he Works Hard for the Money: Working Overtime in Taiwan
How often do YOU work overtime? What's your company's policy on overtime? Do you get paid for it? Do you claim it??
Working overtime in Taiwan is a hot topic! It even made the international news recently, on the BBC World Service. At a Nov session last year, we read a short China Post newspaper article entitled: 48.8% of male employees overweight: survey http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2010/11/05/278731/488-of.htm
The bureau (of Health Promotion under the Dept of Health) urged local companies to help to create a healthy working environment by encouraging their employees to engage in regular exercises and by holding weight-losing contests. ------------------------------
Yvonne, one of our members, reacted to this, saying:
Our government doesn't need to encourage companies to hold weight-losing contests--it needs to get companies to STOP so much overtime work. Then employees will have time to exercise and eat decent dinners.
At this session, after Julie leads us in an icebreaker, we'll find out what was reported on the BBC, and discuss our own personal working hours and company policies. Then, we'll write a Letter to the Editor to keep the discussion going on this topic in our local media...and maybe even help change attitudes and policies...
For planning purposes, if you can come, please register by Friday 21 Jan, 12 noon.
Thanks--hope to see you! Please don't go to work instead of coming to this session!!
:) Lynn
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