The family of a Kaohsiung security guard who died after working 42 consecutive days is to receive about NT$890,000 (US$27,934) in compensation, the Kaohsiung District Court ruled.
The man, surnamed Hsu (徐), started working as a security guard at Formosa Wang Brothers Park in Kaohsiung’s Cianjhen District (前鎮) on June 11, 2020, the ruling said.
He collapsed suddenly while at work on Nov. 27 that same year, before dying three days later of a hemorrhagic stroke.
Photo: Taipei Times
Hsu’s family said that they were seeking compensation of NT$1.49 million because before he collapsed at work, Hsu had worked the night shift for 42 days without any days off, working 10.5 hours to 12 hours each day.
Hsu’s employer said that he only needed to be on duty for two hours per day while he was making the rounds of the park and that he could then take a rest as he was just on standby.
However, the judge said that time still counted as work time and not time when he was free to rest.
The verdict said that in 2020, Hsu had worked 107.5 hours of overtime from Oct. 27 to Nov. 25. The law states the maximum number of overtime hours allowed per month is 46.
The court also found that Hsu had hidden that he had hypertension when filling out the employee health form before starting work, which the judge said had contributed to his death.
The judge added that even though Hsu did not disclose his underlying health problems, his employer should still have take into consideration the effect that working night shifts and long hours can have on people’s health and take measures to ensure employees work in a safe environment.
China might accelerate its strategic actions toward Taiwan, the South China Sea and across the first island chain, after the US officially entered a military conflict with Iran, as Beijing would perceive Washington as incapable of fighting a two-front war, a military expert said yesterday. The US’ ongoing conflict with Iran is not merely an act of retaliation or a “delaying tactic,” but a strategic military campaign aimed at dismantling Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and reshaping the regional order in the Middle East, said National Defense University distinguished adjunct lecturer Holmes Liao (廖宏祥), former McDonnell Douglas Aerospace representative in Taiwan. If
Prosecutors in New Taipei City yesterday indicted 31 individuals affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for allegedly forging thousands of signatures in recall campaigns targeting three Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers. The indictments stem from investigations launched earlier this year after DPP lawmakers Su Chiao-hui (蘇巧慧) and Lee Kuen-cheng (李坤城) filed criminal complaints accusing campaign organizers of submitting false signatures in recall petitions against them. According to the New Taipei District Prosecutors Office, a total of 2,566 forged recall proposal forms in the initial proposer petition were found during the probe. Among those
ECHOVIRUS 11: The rate of enterovirus infections in northern Taiwan increased last week, with a four-year-old girl developing acute flaccid paralysis, the CDC said Two imported cases of chikungunya fever were reported last week, raising the total this year to 13 cases — the most for the same period in 18 years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. The two cases were a Taiwanese and a foreign national who both arrived from Indonesia, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) said. The 13 cases reported this year are the most for the same period since chikungunya was added to the list of notifiable communicable diseases in October 2007, she said, adding that all the cases this year were imported, including 11 from
The Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant’s license has expired and it cannot simply be restarted, the Executive Yuan said today, ahead of national debates on the nuclear power referendum. The No. 2 reactor at the Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County was disconnected from the nation’s power grid and completely shut down on May 17, the day its license expired. The government would prioritize people’s safety and conduct necessary evaluations and checks if there is a need to extend the service life of the reactor, Executive Yuan spokeswoman Michelle Lee (李慧芝) told a news conference. Lee said that the referendum would read: “Do
RSS