TAIWAN, June 10 - President Tsai addresses Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2022 On June 10, at the invitation of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (AoD),
More than three-quarters of Taiwanese support amending laws to ban corporal punishment at home, the Humanistic Education Foundation told a news conference on Tuesday.
A survey conducted by the foundation showed that 39.2 percent of parents discipline their children using corporal punishment, 66.3 percent scold their children and 56.3 percent dispense other forms of punishments.
The survey also showed that 96.5 percent of parents teach their kids by reasoning or communicating with them.
The majority of parents support banning corporal punishment at home, with 24.1 percent being highly supportive and 53.6 percent agreeing if there are supporting measures in place, the survey
Legislative action is required to deal with unequal pay, lack of social insurance coverage and hazardous work conditions for Taiwanese engaged in atypical work, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) said yesterday.
Fan spoke at a joint news conference with labor groups in Taipei to mark the Workers’ Day weekend.
The nation’s atypical workforce employees subsisting on part-time work, independent contractors and other types of irregular work has grown to about 800,000, including 100,0000 drivers working for food delivery platforms, she said.
As labor regulations and the social safety net offer atypical workers little protection, they are vulnerable to exploitation
ALMOST THERE: Legislators said that the nation is ready to accept their plan, as the enrollment rate of five-year-olds was already 96.67% in the 2020-2021 academic yearBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer