The company had previously planned to provide child-care services, but ended up canceling them since no employees enrolled in the program, he said.
"It doesn't really seem to be convenient to bring children to the workplace," Chen said.
Over 30 percent of the survey's respondents said that their companies are reducing the number of full-time employees, and instead are hiring part-time workers in an effort to cut costs.
Full-time jobs that were given to part-timers were mostly assembly-line work, customer service and administrative management, Shiah said.
Criticizing the latest hiring schemes, DPP legislator Chou Ya-shu (周雅淑) vowed yesterday to push forward the passage of another labor law that would better regulate temporary employment.
"Part-time contracts put labor at a disadvantage since employers don't have to pay for insurance or pension plans, and can lay off employees whenever they please," Chou said.
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