Can an employer cut or deny you your annual bonus if you take what they consider too many sick days?
The only pertinent regulation I’m finding is:
Article 9
An employer shall not deduct full-attendance bonus payment from the worker who has either taken wedding, funeral, occupational sick leave, or public leave.
But I’m unclear whether my employer is legally allowed to cut my bonus if I’ve taken 6 sick days this year.
Full-attendance bonus details
Annual bonus should be about performance. Have a look in your contract. It should say what the requirements are. If it is not described properly, then your employer most likely never intended to pay it. They just decide on a whim.
IMO 6 days sick leave in a year are not too much.
From 2026 the rules will change to much more favorable conditions for employees. In Taiwanese style it took only someone to die for changes to be made.
[!quote] AI Summary
- Proportional Deduction of Bonuses: Employers will no longer be allowed to forfeit a worker’s entire “Full Attendance Bonus” for taking sick leave. Instead, the bonus must be deducted proportionally based on the number of sick days taken.
Example: If a monthly attendance bonus is NT3,000, taking one sick day results in NT100 deduction (1/30th), rather than losing the entire NT$3,000.- Protection Against Adverse Treatment: Employers are prohibited from imposing “unfavorable treatment” (such as negative performance reviews solely based on attendance) on workers who take ordinary sick leave, provided the total sick leave does not exceed 10 days per year.
- Hourly Leave for Family Care: Workers will be allowed to take personal leave in hourly increments (rather than half or full days) to care for family members. The regulations specify that employers cannot treat this specific type of leave as an absence that impacts the full attendance bonus.
In my place they ask us to sign fake electronic work sheets…everybody managers…everyone. It’s not a Taiwanese organisation but they have a branch in Taiwan I work through.
I guess it’s handy for holding in my pocket in case shit hits the fan someday.
Only for Taiwanese citizens and white collar ARCs….for migrant workers they still treat like shit.
Hey it’s a start but there’s a real apartheid society here that’s not talked about enough.
Bunch of snobs but who can actually put there snobbery into action.
