Health Bureau of Kaohsiung City, File Picture, photo source: Taiwan Media
According to the report, Ms Chen Chi-mai said she had received a complaint from an employee of the health bureau that after a fire broke out in the “City-in-city” building in Kaohsiung in 2021, the Kaohsiung City Health Bureau had held a psychological relief activity, with the Mayor of Kaohsiung attending, when Chen Chi-mai left and the cake was not delivered, the head surnamed Su yelled at the employee, who had to “Kneel down”.
The complainant also said that the health bureau was full of darkness, and that the cases of bullying were so numerous that the director, Huang Zhizhong, would remove any subordinate who did not obey him and “Use one subordinate as two.”, not only that, but also two cases of staff committing suicide during Huang’s tenure.
Li said that if the complainant’s statement to the official of the heart health center is true, “It is really more terrible than the incident of Xie Yirong, the branch director of the Labor Department!” She asked the Health Bureau to take the initiative to investigate the incident. Chen Chi-mai said an investigation would be launched if specific information about the complainant, when and where the complaint was made was provided.
United News Network reported that for heart health center, “Kneeling case,” the health bureau received complaints 29, has asked the personnel office to initiate an investigation and necessary disposal. After preliminary understanding, the incident took place in 2021, when it was confirmed that there was“Kneeling” circumstances, but the relevant process is still to be clarified, according to the law, the Su supervisor was transferred from his current post, and sent to other organs as non-supervisor to cooperate with the investigation.
Regarding the suicide of two staff members, in 2017, the head of the Accounting Office of the Health Bureau committed suicide after serving for about five months, and the source of the stress has not yet been identified after investigation. In 2022, the new staff just reported for duty for one month, has not yet taken on the case that the occurrence of regret, after investigation is not the result of work pressure. In order to carefully clarify the cause of the accident, the health bureau has re-opened the investigation of both cases.
According to previous reports, Taiwan’s labor department, which is in charge of labor rights and interests on the island, recently broke out a bullying incident. A civil servant surnamed Wu of the“Labor development department” in North Chiyi Huajinma was bullied and killed on November 4, the outside world pointed the finger at the sub-director, Xie Yirong. But the investigation report released by Taiwan’s Labor Department on the 19th not only denied that Wu’s death was related to bullying, but also excused hsieh yi-yung with“Good intentions”, making the island’s anger more and more heated. In the face of the bullying case continued to burn, he peishan resigned from the head of the Labor Department.
Recently, the CDC, Taiwan’s health and Welfare Authority, has also been exposed that a subordinate of its leader, bullying, often growls at his staff, throws official documents, name calling, and even insults at them. Audio recordings have also been leaked online. On November 29, Lu Jiande, deputy head of the department in charge of health and welfare, said that several officials of the department were suspected of being involved in workplace bullying cases. The administrative investigation has accumulated six people, and the preliminary interview results show that two of them have serious circumstances, with immediate effect.