Affected by the impact of US-China trade frictions and the downward revision of global economic growth, the number of people on the island's machinery industry has put on unpaid leave soar in the past six months. Take , a major tool machine industry center, as an example. Last year, only one operator reported taking unpaid leave. However, until July this year, seven companies have reported unpaid leave, affecting nearly a thousand people. Among them, four machine-related companies account for, affecting more than 500 people.
By September, the situation of taking unpaid leave has improved slightly, but the "Ministry of Labor" of the Taiwan authorities recently released the latest statistics on unpaid leave. Currently, 34 public institutions and 1,950 people still have unpaid leave; this statistics decreased by 307 compared with the statistics released in August, a decrease of 13.6%.
Taiwan's Economic Daily commented that tool machine is still the largest industry for unpaid leave, and the lunar calendar is approaching. If orders continue to be sluggish, if the tool machine operators have no choice but to survive, it is very likely to further deteriorate into a large number of employees being fired, and even a wave of bankruptcies. is now four months away from the Lunar New Year, and the Taiwan authorities must handle the crisis well.
commented that we must point out that the current plan for rescue of tool machines in Taiwan authorities has no sense of crisis. Although the domestic procurement demand of technical vocational schools and public enterprises can be seen as policy support from the Taiwan authorities, we do not seem to see the anxiety that the tool machine operators are pressing in front of us. As for the three major strategies proposed by Tsai Ing-wen, "financing orders", and "consolidating capital transformation", is basically just a documentary assignment for old wines in new bottles, and there is no new policy of beef with a sense of crisis.
