CLA REVIEWS HOSPITAL LABOR CONDITIONS

To probe the working condition of medical personnel, the Council for Labor Affairs has conducted a survey on the 50 hospitals nationwide and has found that medical personnel in more than thirty percent of the hospitals are seriously overworked.

Despite CLA's efforts in punishing the violators with fines, labor groups are calling the government to take a more active approach to really resolve the problem.

Medical staff, whose job is to save lives, are actually considered a high-risk group due to their consistently long working hours.

According to the Council for Labor Affairs' latest survey on labor conditions in hospitals, it is found that 32 percent of the 50 surveyed hospitals, about 16 of them, overwork their medical staff, with

15 of them being repeated violators of last year.

Among the hospitals, the worst one is the Haitien hospital in Ilan, which doesn't provide overtime pays and wages during the holidays.

Haitien hospital was fined 24,000 NT dollars for failing to establish work rules and a fair working condition for their employees.

In response, the hospital claims that the overtime pay and holiday pays are included in the salary.

Surprisingly, violations were also found in Department of Health's Keelung Hospital, where the medical staff are overworked.

The spokesperson of Keelung Hospital said that the regulated working hours are 80 hours per two weeks, and the employees will be paid during holidays.

Although the hospital stressed it didn't violate the labor laws, it was found to have employees working overtime and is fined 6,000 NT dollars for the violation.

Still, labor groups said that the fines cannot solve the problem since these hospitals have ignored the labor laws for a long time.

"Hospitals have long violated the regulation of the Labor Standard Law,

but the situation is never improved.

I think the authorities have to try to

solve the problems soon."

The government should include working conditions into the hospital evaluation, which is the only way to fundamentally eradicate the problem by cutting off the government subsidy for violators.

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