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Legislative History

Title: Labor Standards Act CH
Announced Date: 1984-07-30
Amended Date: 2020-06-10
Category: Ministry of Labor(勞動部)
1.Enacted and promulgated a total eighty-six articles of the Act by the Presidential Order No.14069 on July 30, 1984
2.Amended and promulgated Article 3, added Articles 31-1, 84-1 and 84-2 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.8500298370 on December 27, 1996
3.Amended and promulgated Article 30-1 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.8700098000 on May 13, 1998
4.Amended and promulgated Article 30 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.8900158760 on June 28, 2000
5.Amended and promulgated Articles 4 and 72 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.8900177630 on July 19, 2000
6.Amended and promulgated Articles 3, 21, 30-1 and 56 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.09100120620 on June 12, 2002
7.Amended and promulgated Articles 30, 30-1, 32, 49, 77, 79 and 86 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.09100248770 on December 25, 2002. The Act shall become effective on the date of promulgation. However, Paragraph 1 and 2 of Article 30 amended and promulgated on June 28, 2000 of the Act shall become effective on January 1, 2001
8.Amended and promulgated Article 54 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.09700055071 on May 14, 2008
9.Amended and promulgated Article 53 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.09800094001 on April 22, 2009
10.Amended and promulgated Articles 75 to 79 and 80, added Article79-1 of the Act by the Presidential Order No.10000136181 on June 29, 2011
11.Amended on December 11,2013
12.Amended and promulgated Article 17, 28, 55, 56, 78, 79 and 86, added Article 80-1 of the Act by the Presidential Order No. 10400012401 on February 4, 2015. The amendments shall take effect from the day of promulgation except for Paragraph 1 of Article 28, which shall take effect eight months after promulgation.
13.Amendments to Articles 4, 30, 79 and 86 are promulgated per Presidential Hua-Zong-Yi-Yi-Zi Decree No. 10400064421 on June 3, 2015, and shall effect from January 1, 2016
14.Article 58 of the Labor Standards Act amended and promulgated by Presidential Decree No. 10400077211 on July 1, 2015
15.Amended on December 16, 2015
16.Provisions of Article 14 are amended and promulgated in accordance with the presidential order of Hua-Zong-Yi-Yi-Zi No. 10500140131 dated Nov. 16, 2016
17.Amended on December 21, 2016
18.Article 61 of the Labor Standards Act amended and promulgated by Presidential Decree No. 10600155871 on December 27, 2017
19.Amended and promulgated Article 24, 32, 34, 36 to 38 and 86, added Article 32-1 of the Act by the Presidential Decree No. 10700009781 on January 31, 2018, and shall effect from March 1, 2018
20.Article 54, 55 and 59 of the Labor Standards Act amended and promulgated by Presidential Decree No. 10700125351 on November 21, 2018
21.Amended and promulgated Article 2 and 9, added Article 22-1 of the Act by the Presidential Decree No. 10800049091 on May 15, 2019.
22.Amended and promulgated Article 63 and 78, added Article 17-1 and 63-1 of the Act by the Presidential Decree No. 10800060011 on June 19, 2019.
23.Amended Articles 80-1 of the Act by the Presidential Order No. 10900063561 on June 10, 2020.