China News Agency, Taipei, February 23. A new survey shows that last year, 46.3% of Taiwanese workers worked overtime, an increase of 2.5 percentage points from 2020, and the average monthly extended working hours was 14.9 hours.
Among them, 86.5% of workers received overtime pay or took compensatory time off every time they worked overtime. In other words, 13.5% of workers did not receive overtime pay or took compensatory time off.
According to Taiwan media reports, the competent labor affairs department of the Taiwan authorities announced on the 23rd the 2021 "Labor Life and Employment Status Survey".
The survey showed that last year, 72.5% of workers were satisfied with their overall work, an increase of 1.3 percentage points from 2020. 25% felt ordinary and 2.5% felt dissatisfied.
In terms of overtime work, according to the industry, the “professional, scientific and technical service industry” has the highest proportion of extended working hours at 57.7%, followed by the financial and insurance industry, accounting for 55.3%, and the publishing, audio-visual and information and communication industry at 54.3%. three.
In the part of overtime hours, the survey also showed that last year, 95.8% of workers worked overtime for no more than 46 hours per month (including those who never worked overtime), and 4.2% of them worked over 46 hours, a slight increase of 0.1 percentage points from 2020; The number of months with 46 hours was the highest with 1.6% between 1 and 2 months.
The survey also shows that in terms of retirement planning, the average expected retirement age of workers last year was 61.3 years old, 0.3 years lower than that in 2020. Among them, 49.8% were expected to retire over the age of 61. Among them, male workers expected to retire at an average age of 61.8 years old, and female workers averaged 61.8 years old. was 60.8 years old.
As for the sources of living expenses after labor planning retirement, "labor insurance old-age benefits and labor pensions" accounted for the most at 69.4%, followed by "savings" with 68%, and "investment income" with 49.5% and third.
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