英文摘要 |
Working time is undoubted one of the most important conditions of labor. It has been more than a decade since our country amended and promulgated the law of the statutory normal 84 working hours in two weeks since 2000. While observing our neighboring countries like Japan and Korea, both of them not just shift to adopt 40 working hours per week system in 1987 and 2003, respectively, but also update the prohibit measures in working hours extension as well s commit to improve the utilization rate of special leave to shorten the total annual hours through developing long-term transformation of working hours. To comply with world trends as well protect labors’ physical and mental health, the present paper suggested that it is necessary to amend our country’s “Labor Standards Act” to reduce the normal weekly working hours to 40 hours. Furthermore, an effort is required in reducing the total annual hours in order to actual shorten the working hours. In the long term, the formulation of transformation of working hours (such as 26 weeks transformation working hours) can be considered to couple with the reduction of total annual working hours as well as the development of relevant measures for improving the utilization rate of special leave; as to short term, efforts should be focused on inhibiting working hours extension in order to promote substantial shortening of working hours. |