Bank clerk married same spouse 4 times, divorced 3 times in little more than a month to claim extra marriage leave

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Phillip Charlier 1 Comment labor-law, Taipei City Labor Department

A bank clerk in Taipei City married the same spouse four times and divorced three times in a 37-day period last year, in order to claim 32 days marriage leave, United Daily News and Liberty Times reported today, April 11. According to a lawyer named Lin who posted about the unusual case on his Facebook page, the bank was issued a fine for only paying for the mandatory 8 days leave for the first marriage. According to Lin, the clerk

labor activist Lee Ming-yan after his arrest

Violent Crimes

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment labor-law, Taipei City Labor Department

Taipei City Labor Commissioner Lai Hsiang-lin (賴香伶) was released from hospital this morning after a man barged into her office Wednesday afternoon, and hit her in the face with a concrete reinforcement bar. Lai spent two nights in hospital and received 11 stitches to her left eyebrow after the attack. Doctors said that Lai fortunately did not suffer concussion or intracranial hemorrhage and that the wound should heal in around one week. Lai’s attacker, Lee Ming-yen, described as a labor