TAIPEI -- The starting salary for first-time employees in Taiwan dropped 808 new Taiwan dollars ($26) from the previous year to 27,042 new Taiwan dollars in 2018, a survey has shown.Their desired pay also fell 1,162 new Taiwan dollars to 31,103 new Taiwan dollars during the past year, according to local human resource platform 1111 Job Bank.The starting salary for engineering-related graduates reached 34,098 new Taiwan dollars, the highest, followed by consultation-related graduates and those who have a background in mathematics, physics and chemistry education, with a salary of 34,000 and 29,690 new Taiwan dollars respectively.Graduates who major in sports, sightseeing and catering earned only 24,471 new Taiwan dollars, the survey showed.It also showed that 63.83 percent of the respondents are most concerned with pay and welfare and 55.32 percent are concerned with the location of where they work.A total of 68.55 percent of university graduates have been employed while 29.79 percent of them have had changed jobs at least twice, it said, adding that working overtime, seeking better opportunities and feeling no sense of achievement are major reasons for job-hopping.A total of 1,269 questionnaires were collected during the survey from Dec. 10 to 27. black rubber bracelets meaningrubber wristbandscustom-wristbandscustomize-braceletssilicone wristbands australia
Screenshot of the advertisement of Enjoying Going International Travel Agency, highlighting the discrimination words. [Photo from web] A travel agency in Changde, Hunan province, was punished on Wednesday for a tourism product that discriminates against pregnant women, journalists, tour guides and people with disabilities, local authorities said. Enjoying Going International Travel Agency in Changde posted information about an upcoming three-day tour to Guilin in the Guangxi autonomous region via WeChat on Wednesday, saying that people in those categories would not be accepted. Also, an extra 200 yuan ($32) would be charged for people whose ages were not between 24 to 69 or those who refused to enter the store the agency recommended. The tour was priced at 299 yuan per person, including transportation, accommodations and meals. The agency deleted the offer later that day and posted an open letter of apology explaining the advertisement as a clerical error by some staff and from inadequate supervision from leaders. The Changde bureau of tourism, foreign and overseas Chinese affairs investigated after receiving complaints about the advertisement on Sina Weibo. It subsequently ordered the agency to remove the ad. The bureau said it will also transfer information about other illegal travel-related behavior by travel agencies to the local tourism administrative department, and conduct a special inspection campaign of all the city's travel agencies and crack down on illegal advertising. Although pregnant women, senior citizens, children and people with disabilities do cost more during travel, it's illegal to put them on a blacklist, said He Mang, assistant dean of the School of Tourism Management in Sun Yat-sen University. The travel agency only focused on profit but neglected its social responsibility, he added, which is not unique in the tourism industry. Rules that damage tourists' interests should be eliminated, he said. custom-silicon-wristbandssilicone-wristbandscustom-wristbands24-hour-wristbands80s rubber bracelets<%2fcenter>
