With respect to the media coverage of the discussion on whether employers assigning work to employees by LINE outside working hours qualify as having employees work overtime, the legislators plan to propose revising the Labor Standards Act (the "LSA") to require employers to treat assignments given via communication software or text messages outside working hours as an extension of working hours and pay additional wages accordingly in order to protect the interests of employees. In fact, the key to resolving the overtime issue is not in the provisions of the LSA but in defining what constitutes overtime. More details regarding the overtime issue are provided as follows.
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