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On 15 February 2001, the Council of Labor Af-fairs (CLA) completed its initial drafts of pro-posed amendments to three labor laws: the Labor Union Law, the Collective Agreements Law and the Settlement of Labor Disputes Law. The main points of the amendments include:
lowering the threshold for union organization, to allow employees of enterprises with 10 or more employees to organize a union, instead of 30 as at present;
denying the right to strike to workers in the electric power generation, tap water supply, air-traffic control and health care industries;
imposing a 60-day cooling-off period before strikes by workers in the telecommunications, mass transport, public health, petroleum re-fining, and gas supply industries (i.e., if con-ciliation brings no resolution to an industrial dispute, workers may apply with the relevant competent authority for permission to strike, but must not strike within 60 days from the date notified by the authority);
giving serving directors and supervisors of labor unions the right to take paid leave to at-tend to union affairs, or to take extended un-paid leave.
The CLA will convene a further discussion fo-rum to which it will invite labor and business groups. It expects to submit the proposed amendments to the Executive Yuan for review in late February, and hopes they can be passed into law during the current session of the Legislative Yuan.
