THIS YEAR, TEACHERS' DAY HOLIDAY ENJOYED BY WORKERS|"一例一休"修法卡關 教師節放假混亂

September 28th has traditionally been a national holiday in honor of teachers . However this year, it is a holiday for workers, and not the teachers, which caused quite a confusion. Yilan County Magistrate Lin Tsung-hsien suggested that holidays should be standardized. Premier Lin Chuan hopes to amend the law to solve the problem. The procedural calls on the amendment "one fixed day off and one flexible rest day" have been sluggish at the Legislative Yuan. Sept. 28 used to be Teachers' Day, but this year it is a holiday for workers, not teachers. ==LU SHIOW-YEN, KMT Legislator vs. KUO FONG-YU, Minister of Labor== Workers have the day off but teachers don't. Therefore Confucius was a worker, not a teacher. (Legislator Lu, this holiday has nothing to do with the naming.) ==LIN CHUAN, Premier vs. LAI SHYH-BAO, Legislator== 928 has been a holiday for workers for many years. It has been like that. (What you just said, Premier, is fooling the people.) Is 928 a holiday or not? Yilan County Magistrate Lin Tsung-hsien made a point to the central government, public and private schools adopt different standards for holidays, which affects students' right to education. Some DPP city officials did not make any criticism to Premier Lin, they only suggested to local governments to follow executive orders. ==CHENG WEN-TSAN, Taoyuan Mayor== This is an old issue. It was like that before. You'll have to look at workers having national holidays off, how about other holidays? If it needs to be changed, then we will have to amend the law. ==WILLIAM LAI, Tainan Mayor== On this issue, many people have already expressed their opinions. It's too late to amend the law. If Oct. 25th were a holiday, would the 24th a flexible holiday? Minister of Labor Kuo Fang-yu said he will leave the issue to employers and employees to reach consensus. Premier Lin emphasized that Oct. 25th is a national holiday for workers, not civil servants. TRANSLATED BY：ANTHONY LIN 因為「一例一休」修法卡關，今年的928教師節，卻出現勞工放假、老師沒放假的現象。 ==國民黨立委 盧秀燕 vs 勞動部長 郭芳煜== 勞工放假 老師不放 所以孔子是勞工 不是老師 報告委員 這個放假 跟那個名稱沒有關係 ==行政院長 林全 vs 國民黨立委 賴士葆== 15年來都是 應該說是過去928都是勞工是 那天是勞工的假日 都是如此 應該是這個意思 這一句話 院長 這一句話叫唬弄老百姓 而面對928休假亂象，雖然宜蘭縣長林聰賢向中央喊話，強調公私立學校放假不同調，影響學生受教權。不過，部分綠營執政縣市首長態度保留，不願對林全多做批評，認為地方政府依循中央法令放假，該放就放。 ==桃園市長 鄭文燦== 這個問題是個老問題 過去也是這樣子 那麼要看國定假日 勞工放假 其他沒有放假 那這情況如果要改變的話 要經過修法討論 ==台南市長 賴清德== 這個 很多人都表示意見 （是 謝謝市長） 由於修法不及，10月25號如果放假，24號有沒有彈性放假，郭芳煜表示，要透過勞資雙方協商；林全則強調，10月25號是勞基法的假日，對公務員不適用。 記者 綜合報導