TRANSASIA WILL MAKE EARLY PAYMENT, AMOUNT UNDECIDED|復興勞資協商 資方願提前發薪.資遣費

On Nov.28, TransAsia Airways held yet another negotiation session with its employees after its abrupt dissolution. During the session, the company agreed to pay out salary and severance package earlier than planned. Yet regarding the dollar figure, no consensus has yet to take form. In fact, some have raised doubts regarding the legitimacy of 5 of the labor representatives at the meeting, as their requests were less demanding than those of Union representatives. On Nov.28, TransAsia Airways held a labor negotiation session to seek consensus with its employees. The company agreed to pay out November's salary earlier than planned, and said that employees will receive a severance pay before mid-Jan. ==LIU CHI-CHUNG TransAsia Airways' spokesperson== TransAsia originally planned to pay out this month's salary on Dec.5, and now we have decided to pay it earlier on Nov. 30. As to severance pay, according to the Labor Standards Act, the company must pay it within 30 days. We will offer the severance pay in compliance with our employees' demand. They will get it in 15 days. TransAsia Airways said employees who worked there for less than three years will receive severance pay according to the Labor Standards Act. Those who worked over three years will receive higher severance pay. However, employee representatives have different opinions on this issue. Those elected in 2014 claimed that an employee's severance pay should be 80 percent of their monthly wage, per year's service at the company. They also said the rule should be applied to all employees equally. Meanwhile, TransAsia Airways' labor union claimed that employees should get a month's wage per year's service at the company. They also asked for a NT$200 thousand compensation for emotional distress. ==PANG MIN-YI Deputy Executive Director == TransAsia's pilots have been blamed for bad flight safety records over the years. The NT$ 200 thousand compensation is the lowest pay that the company should offer to take care of employees. ==YU FENG-PIN employee representative== There are 1,700 employees at TransAsia. We are all in the same boat. It does not matter if you are a union member or not. It does not matter if it is the union or someone else who can make the company offer better conditions than those we have been promised now. The same rule should apply to all employees for the best deal possible. As the five representatives made similar suggestions for compensation, the representative nature of these was questioned. TransAsia said that they were all elected in Dec. 2014 by all employees, so this was not so. TransAsia Airways' labor union believes that no consensus was reached during the negotiation. They asked the company to use its NT$600 million trust fund to cover all severance pay, and pay their salary with extra money. TRANSLATED BY：ARIEL HSIEH 復興航空勞資協商會議再度展開，這次資方終於有具體承諾，除了11月薪資將提前發放，資遣費也將在一月中前入員工帳戶。 ==復興航空發言人 劉忠繼== 這個月的薪資 我們原來是12月5日發放 但我們現在提前到11月30日 也就是後天來發放 資遣費的部分 原來依照勞基法 是在資遣事實發生之後 30天之內要發放 但是我們現在也是依照 勞方所提的訴求 我們在15天之內 我們就提出發放 資方版的資遣費，三年以下照勞基法發放，三年以上優於勞基法，將報臨時董事會同意後生效，但勞資協商會議上，勞方代表卻不同調，其中，復興航空2014年選出的勞資會議勞方代表，主張資遣費一年以0.8基數計算，並向員工喊話不需加入工會、也能享有勞資會議的決議，但復興企業工會主張年資一年以1為基數，並堅持20萬元的精神賠償費。 ==復興航空企業工會副理事長 龐閔億== 機師都受到很大的飛安指責 我們都看在眼裡 20萬元只是你復興航空 最基本最基本應該照顧我們的 ==勞資會議勞方代表 游豐賓== 大家這1700個同事 大家是在同一條船上 今天不管你有沒有加入工會 那其實只要 不管是工會 或是任何人跟公司談出 一個優於我們 原來同仁獲得條件的時候 大家都可以一併比照辦理 由於勞資會議勞方代表的主張與資方類似，也遭質疑代表性，復興航空特別發表聲明，參與勞資協商的5位勞方代表是全體員工在2014年12月選出的，代表性不容質疑。而復興企業工會則認為這次勞資協商仍無共識，要求資方公佈6億元給員工的信託基金用途，應全部用在資遣，不能包含發薪水。 記者 薛宜家 陳保羅 台北報導