A large-scale job fair organized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) opened yesterday in Taipei, with job seekers swarming to the fair to vie for over 10,000 job vacancies offered by 158 companies, according to the MOEA. Many job seekers and those looking to change jobs showed up at the fair yesterday morning to … Continue reading
The Taipei City Government will fine a Next Media Group subsidiary for carrying out mass layoffs in contravention of the labor laws, Chen Yeh-shin (陳業鑫), head of the city’s Department of Labor, said yesterday. Next Multi-media Entertainment Services failed to give adequate notice to the city’s labor department that it planned to sack 234 of … Continue reading
Fifty Taipei companies had announced mass layoffs by mid-August this year, the highest in four years, reported the city’s Labor Department yesterday. According to the agency, “mass layoff” is defined by law as the letting-go of 20 workers in a single day or a third of a workforce within 60 days by a company with … Continue reading