英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

The Cabinet continued to come under fire today a day after it decided to raise the minimum hourly wage but not the minimum monthly wage. Minister without Portfolio Kuan Chung-ming said the move was made to help Taiwan’s small and medium-sized enterprises. But opposition lawmakers wondered why those same companies were ignored when the government increased power and fuel prices. 

The Cabinet announced Wednesday that an increase in the minimum monthly wage would depend on general economic conditions.

Sean Chen (Sept. 26)
Premier
As for raising the monthly wage, that will wait until GDP has grown by more than 3 percent for two straight quarters or when the unemployment rate falls under 4 percent for two consecutive months.

DPP legislators charged that setting thresholds for raising the minimum wage amounted to bullying local workers. But Minister without Portfolio Kuan Chung-ming, the main backer of the Cabinet’s move, argued at the Legislature that with the local economy struggling, it was not the right time to raise minimum monthly pay. 

Kuan Chung-ming
Minister without Portfolio
This is definitely not just helping big capitalists. It’s the opposite. The government is helping more small and medium-sized enterprises. So when labor groups say we haven’t even given them a stewed egg, everybody should not forget that if we create more unemployment, we won’t be talking about stewed eggs. Some people won’t even have a grain of rice. 

Lee Kun-tse
DPP Legislator
The minister without portfolio’s reasoning is really amusing. When the prices of electricity and fuel were increased, which put even greater pressure on small and medium-sized companies, why did the government want to raise those prices?

The opposition party charged that the government has done a poor job on the economy and was forcing marginal workers to pay for its questionable policies. As long as Taiwan’s economy remains in a slump, such criticism is not likely to go away.

基本工資確定先調時薪，月薪緩漲，行政院政務委員管中閔親自到立院解釋，這是要幫中小企業度過難關，不過綠營立委痛批，政府在漲水電費的時候，怎麼就沒想到中小企業。

行政院拍板定案，基本工資，確定只先調時薪，但月薪要漲，必須有附帶條件。

[[行政院長 陳?(9.26)]]
“月薪的(調漲)部份，應該等到連續兩季的GDP成長超過3%，或是連續兩個月的失業率，低於4%以後來實行”

民進黨立委痛批，行政院設下的調薪門檻，根本是在欺負勞工，不過行政院政務委員管中閔，親自到立院，強調國內現在面臨不景氣，不是調漲月薪的適當時機。 

[[行政院政務委員 管中閔]]
“絕對不是只在幫大資本家，相反的，(政府)恰恰是在幫更多中小企業，所以當勞團在說，我們連一顆滷蛋都不給的時候，大家不要忘記，如果造成更多的失業，那不是一顆滷蛋的問題，是有些人連一粒米都不能下鍋”

[[立委(民) 李昆澤]]
“管政務委員的理由非常好笑，在油電雙漲的時候，對於中小企業的一個壓力，增加的更多，為什麼要油電雙漲呢”

在野黨嗆聲，政府自己經濟搞不好，憑什麼拿最底層的勞工開刀，看來基本工資的問題，勢必還有得吵。

文章出處 ：民視英語新聞