According to the China Time News Network and other Taiwanese media reported on December 9, the Taiwan Railway Company’s nearly one-year staff shortage problem has not been resolved. According to the latest statistics of Taiwan Media, the lack of staff in Taiwan railway 1,608 people, and the lack of manpower, the result is that other employees have to work overtime to deal with business. Lee Kun-tse, a KMT representative, said 1,871 employees worked more than 30 hours of overtime a month, with some working up to 322 hours a month at the eastern operations office. Lee Kun-tse questioned the poor pay and the fact that many new hires use Taiwan railway as a springboard to “Switch” to other rail or public sector jobs after gaining experience, with the highest turnover rates in the engineering and electricity sectors, asked the Taiwan iron to come up with countermeasures.
It is reported that the problem of staff shortage in Taiwan Railway Corporation has not been solved for nearly one year.
According to Lee Kun-tse, the company had 16,330 statutory posts and a budget of 17,351 posts, but actually had only 15,743, leaving a shortfall of 1,608. The reason for the shortfall is a lack of pay and other people have to work overtime because of insufficient manpower.
Citing statistics, China Time News. COM said 469 employees worked 30 to 35 hours of overtime a month, 511 for 35 to 40 hours, and 891 for more than 40 hours, a total of 1,871 employees worked more than 30 hours of overtime. The eastern Operation Office took the top three positions, with employees working 322 hours, 319 hours and 300.5 hours a month.
According to the report, TCRC Chairman du Wei responded that after understanding, most of the people who work overtime for more than 35 hours or even more than 40 hours are transportation and crew members, especially front-line crew members. As for the transport and Security Service, the security room working hours are longer, the next will be to adjust the posts, the average share of the workload.
Lee Kun-tse questioned whether the company, which has seen the highest turnover rates in engineering and telecommunications, was responding to the poor pay packages and the fact that many new recruits were using the company as a springboard for other rail or state-run businesses.
Du Wei admitted that the public works, electricity is indeed facing a shortage of people, this year will be re-announced recruitment complement.
According to a previous report by Taiwan’s China Times, 3.78 million people in Taiwan are expected to retire in the next nine years. The“Biggest wave of retirement in history” is coming, and there are no signs that the trend toward fewer children will stop, “Money can’t hire people” is nothing new. When William Lai was the head of Taiwan’s administrative agency in 2017, he proposed three policy directions and related countermeasures to solve the problem of lack of talents in the industry. However, many stall owners bluntly stated that, seven years on, Taiwan still has a serious shortage of workers.