KMT Proposes Codifying 80% Parental Leave Subsidy

大纪元 Epoch Times

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Taiwan is facing a declining birth rate. On the 27th, Kuomintang legislators Wu Tsung-hsien, Huang Chien-pin, and Niu Hsu-ting held a press conference and announced that they would propose a draft amendment to the Employment Insurance Act, requiring that the current practice of paying 80% of the salary for childcare leave be legalized, that disadvantaged families be eligible for subsidies up to full salary, and that 20% of the subsidy be funded …