Sources: Central Personnel Administration, China Post and Taiwan public holidays. The Taiwanese Central Personnel Administration (CPA) announced Tuesday the working schedule and public holidays list for all government agencies and schools for 2008. Schools, banks, stock and other financial markets will operate in accordance with the timetable, and they will all close during these public holidays.
CPA officials stressed that the government calendar applies only to government agencies and employees, but for convenience, most companies and private organizations generally follow the same timetable, although it is not mandatory for the private sector to stick to the schedule for public servants, as long as the schedules adopted in the private sector should not violate the regulations stipulated in the Labor Standards Law governing the operations of enterprises and employees.