Employers of Taiwan asks for a Delay in the Implementation of the Yearly Minimum Wage Increase

Employers from Taiwan are asking Taiwan’s labor authorities to limit the minimum wage increase of to a maximum of three percent for this year.

Employers are being problematic for the plan of the country’s increase in the minimum wage because of its additional burden which will be reflected on their business’ salary expense.

As reported by UDN, based on Hsinn Ping-lung, an associate professor of the National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of National Development, an increase of three percent will be acceptable for the business community but he suggests a five percent minimum wage hike.




A meeting is set by the Ministry of Labor (MOL) for the wage adjustment for the country which is scheduled to occur on August 14 this year.

Over the past three years, Taiwan had increased both the monthly and hourly minimum wage at five percent and from five percent to seven percent.

According to Li Yu-chia, the President of the National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, the country’s small-sized enterprises and medium-sized enterprises will be facing problems of survival if the increase in minimum wage will continue to be implemented every year.

A “freeze on wages” had been requested by the General Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan.
The General Chamber of Taiwan believes that the yearly increase in the minimum wage of the country will affect the tourism industry like the ban of Chinese people to travel to Taiwan.





Hsin Ping-lung disagrees with the yearly increase in the minimum wage. He believes that it will result in an outgrowth of private consumption.

According to UDN, Li expects that a “moderate” increase in the minimum wage will take effect this year but he still asks the national government of Taiwan to assist businesses to adjust to the wage increase by the government adjusting tax policies. Li said that according to some business owners, who he had conversed with, to exclude local and foreign workers to the implementation of the minimum wage increase.