The 2018 amendments to the Labor Standards Act (LSA), while
intended to provide more flexibility in favor of employers in
Taiwan, have nevertheless raised some questions regarding the
distribution of work hours for employees. The new amendments
contain provisions allowing for the adjustment of mandatory rest
days, meaning that, in certain situations, workers may work a
maximum of twelve consecutive days. This ideally gives employers
more options for covering shifts in case of an emergency or in
cases in which time limits for project-based work require employees
to work more than the current limit of six consecutive days.
However, it's not immediately clear from the English language
information currently available just how such a flexible schedule
may be legally implemented. Below, we outline a few ways in which
an employee or multiple employees at a company in Taiwan may be
permitted to work more than six consecutive days.
