Overtime work hours continued to decline last year, while more people reported feeling satisfied with their jobs than in 2022, a Ministry of Labor report found on Monday.
About 41 percent of people worked overtime last year for an average of 13.4 hours per month, continuing a downward trend in recent years and falling 0.8 percentage points from 2022, the ministry’s annual survey on employment conditions showed.
The electricity and gas industries had the most overtime with 63.1 percent of those surveyed in the sectors saying they worked extra hours.
Photo: CNA
More than half of those working in public service, national defense, transportation, healthcare and social work said they worked overtime.
Last year, 84.6 percent of those who worked overtime said they were paid extra or given makeup days, an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the year before.
The real-estate industry was the worst at providing overtime compensation, with 19.6 percent saying they were not given extra pay or other time off.
It was followed by the publishing, audio-visual and communications industries at 16.4 percent, and retail at 12.9 percent.
Employers requesting extra work after hours remained a problem, with 24.5 percent of employees saying their bosses had contacted them after clocking out, although it was down 0.7 percentage points from 2022.
About 17 percent said they had to complete a task immediately, 5.1 percent returned to the office and 13.4 percent did the work elsewhere, averaging to about four hours per month.
However, 74.6 percent of those surveyed said they were satisfied with their jobs overall, up 1.2 percentage points from 2022. Only 3 percent said they were not satisfied.
Nearly all those who said they were satisfied cited gender equality as a reason (97.3 percent), followed by workplace friendships (96.1 percent) and workspace (94 percent).
The top three reasons cited by those who were dissatisfied were review and promotion systems (82.6 percent), wages (64.3 percent) and compliant mechanisms (60 percent).
The latest survey was conducted from June to July last year, and collected 4,095 valid responses.
Kenting National Park service technician Yang Jien-fon (楊政峰) won a silver award in World Grand Prix Photography Awards Spring Season for his photograph of two male rat snakes intertwined in combat. Yang’s colleagues at Kenting National Park said he is a master of nature photography who has been held back by his job in civil service. The awards accept entries in all four seasons across six categories: architectural and urban photography, black-and-white and fine art photography, commercial and fashion photography, documentary and people photography, nature and experimental photography, and mobile photography. Awards are ranked according to scores and divided into platinum, gold and
More than half of the bamboo vipers captured in Tainan in the past few years were found in the city’s Sinhua District (新化), while other districts had smaller catches or none at all. Every year, Tainan captures about 6,000 snakes which have made their way into people’s homes. Of the six major venomous snakes in Taiwan, the cobra, the many-banded krait, the brown-spotted pit viper and the bamboo viper are the most frequently captured. The high concentration of bamboo vipers captured in Sinhua District is puzzling. Tainan Agriculture Bureau Forestry and Nature Conservation Division head Chu Chien-ming (朱健明) earlier this week said that the
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday said it opposes the introduction of migrant workers from India until a mechanism is in place to prevent workers from absconding. Minister of Labor Hung Sun-han (洪申翰) on Thursday told the Legislative Yuan that the first group of migrant workers from India could be introduced as early as this year, as part of a government program. The caucus’ opposition to the policy is based on the assessment that “the risk is too high,” KMT caucus secretary-general Lin Pei-hsiang (林沛祥) said. Taiwan has a serious and long-standing problem of migrant workers absconding from their contracts, indicating that
SPACE VETERAN: Kjell N. Lindgren, who helps lead NASA’s human spaceflight missions, has been on two expeditions on the ISS and has spent 311 days in space Taiwan-born US astronaut Kjell N. Lindgren is to visit Taiwan to promote technological partnerships through one of the programs organized by the US for its 250th national anniversary. Lindgren would be in Taiwan from Tuesday to Saturday next week as part of the US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ US Speaker Program, organized to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said in a statement yesterday. Lindgren plans to engage with key leaders across the nation “to advance cutting-edge technological partnerships and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers,”
RSS