Several members of the Civil Affairs Committee of the Taipei City Council were dissatisfied with the overtime payment of lawmakers' assistants being stuck in the Legislative Yuan, and publicly condemned the Kuomintang legislator Zheng Tiancai.

(Photo by reporter Cai Yahua)

[Reporter Cai Yahua/Taipei Report] The Legislative Yuan passed the third reading in April this year, and the village chief's "subsidy for affairs" was increased from 45,000 to 50,000 per month. Before the Legislative Yuan, the budget had to be paid to the treasury because there was no legal source. The Kuomintang North City Councilor Wang Hao was so angry that he scolded, "Isn't the assistant a human being?" Appointing Zheng Tiancai, disregarding the rights and interests of council assistants.

The Home Affairs Committee of the Legislative Yuan reviewed the "Draft Amendments to Some Provisions of the Regulations on the Payment of Local Public Opinion Representatives' Expenses and the Subsidy for the Subsidy of the Village Chief's Affairs". Passed by the Legislative Yuan at the first and third readings.

However, on the amendments to the draft provisions related to the cost of public assistants, the chairman of the meeting and the committee member of the Internal Affairs Committee, Zheng Tiancai, said that he would choose another day for re-examination.

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The Civil Affairs Committee of the Taipei City Council recently reviewed the City Council's budget for next year, and set more than 36 million yuan for the overtime pay for public-funded assistants. Wang Hao said that he was extremely dissatisfied with the central government. Just passed, the assistant of Liudu is not a human being. He has only reduced the salary of assistants since the people's generation, but has not increased them, and has not paid overtime. He really does not treat assistants as human beings.

Wang Hao said that he asked the parliament to try his best to fight with the central government. He would rather pay the treasury every year, or not pay the treasury, and even directly named Zheng Tiancai and publicly condemned him.

North City Councilor Xu Shuhua also agreed that she would also publicly condemn, which must be approved by the Legislative Yuan and only by the central authorities.

Hong Shulin, secretary-general of the city council, said that Speaker Chen Jinxiang led a team to visit Legislative President You Xikun in December last year. On February 23 this year, the Ministry of the Interior was going to hold a research and business meeting. The salary of assistants will be adjusted by 4% compared with the salary of public teachers and 20% of the total budget of the Ministry. % was compiled into overtime pay. Later, on March 30, the Internal Affairs Committee of the Legislative Yuan reviewed only the affairs of the village chief, and other provisions were not reviewed.

Wang Hao said sourly that Zheng Tiancai was "really a genius." He only complimented the elders, because there were many people there, and went back to the Stone Age with Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe.

Lim Guocheng, a member of the North City Council of the People's Party, praised that the assistants of the Legislative Yuan have all the overtime pay and salary adjustments. Xu Shuhua also said that she paid for the assistant with her own pocket.

Several members of the Civil Affairs Committee believed that an incidental resolution should be made to strive for the salary and benefits of assistants. In the end, the Civil Affairs Committee decided that "the basic salary is adjusted several times every year, and the fees for parliamentarians' assistants have never been adjusted and there is no overtime pay. Please continue to follow the normal legal channels to fight for the central government. Amend the Regulations on Payments on behalf of the People to protect the rights and interests of local councillors and assistants to support laborers, and publicly condemn the legislator Zheng Tiancai who disregards the rights and interests of parliamentary assistants at all levels.”