PRIVATE KINDERGARDENS TO RAISE FEES CITING COST INCREASES OF NEW LABOR LAW|一例一休衝擊 部分私立幼兒園喊漲

Four months after the 1 fixed 1 flex work week policy was implemented, Kindergartens, too, are feeling the impact, and many of them are clamoring for a tuition hike. It is now up to the local governments to deliberate whether they will give their permissions. After the new labor law amendment was implemented, it has impacted many industries, including the education industry. In Taipei and New Taipei cities, many private kindergartens have applied to local government education departments to adjust fees in August due to increased personnel costs. The news worries many parents. ==PARENT== The current tuition and miscellaneous fee is NT$15,000, and an extra monthly fee of 7,000. (Are you worried that they will increase the price?) Yes, because I'm about to have another baby. ==PARENT== In Taipei city, including the registration fee, the cost is about NT$20,000 per month. (What if they adjust the fee?) Then I'm afraid we won't be able to afford it. The National Federation of Teachers Unions found that not only in Taipei and New Taipei cities, but in Tainan too there were 50 or 60 private kindergardens which had applied to the local government to raise fees. Raises were in the region of ten percent. However the NFTU doubted that kindergarten teachers' wages had risen this much and it had had some complaints to this effect from kindergarten teachers. Thus it suspected that this was a ruse by kindergardens to raise fees. ==YEN CHIA-CHEN Vice Chairman, National Federation of Teachers Unions== In the past, employers don't usually compensate the employees for overtime work. Now that they begin to implement the new regulations, they had to hire more people to cover the overtime, meaning that there's an increase in labor cost. It has nothing to do with increasing the salary of the teachers. With calls from private kindergardens to raise fees, the Ministry of Education said that both private and public kindergardens were regulated by local government. The local government sets limits to increases, which will be reviewed by committee to check whether they are reasonable. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 一例一休上路，也衝擊到教育事業了嗎？包括雙北市和台南市，部份私立幼兒園，以人事成本增加為由，打算在八月份，調漲新學年的學雜費，全教工會發現，光是台南，就有五、六十家幼兒園，向市府提出漲價案，調漲幅度將近一成，不過，漲價案申請，還要經各地方政府審議。 一例一休實施後，衝擊各行各業，連教育事業，也受影響，在台北市和新北市，已經有數十家私立幼兒園，以人事成本增加為由，陸續向教育局提出八月份要調漲學雜費的申請案，聽到這消息，讓許多家長很擔憂。 ==家長== 小的話 目前(學雜費)是一萬五 月費是七千 （會不會擔心漲價）會 因為現在又要生一個了 ==家長== 一個月就是加註冊 大概是二萬 台北市 (如果再漲呢) 再漲 可能就快養不起了 不只雙北，全教總工會也發現，台南市已經有五、六十家私立幼兒園，向市府提出漲價案，調漲幅度將近一成，不過，全教總工會卻質疑，有幼教老師投訴，一例一休後，薪資根本沒增加多少，擔心幼兒園是假借一例一休的議題，趁機調漲。 ==全教總幼教委員會副主委 顏嘉辰== 過去沒有落實加班機制 現在開始要落實 這個加班費的部分 他們變成說 他們要多請人 這樣 他們的人事成本是增加 主要是這樣子增加 但是他不是因為 給老師的薪水增加 所以增加人事費用 面對私立幼兒園喊漲，各地方教育局，還是會先經過審議委員會審查是否合理，做把關，教育部表示，會尊重公立或私立幼兒園是地方政府權責，不過，針對五歲幼兒，因為有就學補助，如果這部份有查核到漲價異常，還是會退回地方政府再查明。 蔡慧玲 邱福財 台北報導