Abstract

To avoid using a large number of dispatched employees in business, the Council of Labor Affairs Executive Yuan brought up the most important change of “Labor Standard Law” amendment in recent twenty-six years in June 2010. This is the first time that makes dispatched labor into the standard norms. In addition, seven categories of works are not allowed to employ dispatched labors and the number of dispatched labors can’t surpass 3% of its total employees in general corporate. It can be relaxed to 5% and up to 20% respectively through labor-management conference and agreement of the union. In order to avoid breaking the “Labor Standard Law” amendment, many jobs in Council of Labor Affairs are shifted from dispatched labors to contract-projected labors in this reform.

Employed the depth interview of qualitative research, this research attempts to understand why people would engage in dispatched or contract-projected jobs, whether or not they would do these jobs again in the future, and how they would shift to temporary staffs or not.

Based on Burawoy’s research, the research uses his theory to discuss how dispatched or contracted-projected labors obey this system. The paper shows that, on the one hand, the Council of Labor Affairs fostered the dedicated spirit through setting “Attention of Labor-dispatched by Executive Yuan” to specifically reconcile the profits of both labors and capitalists during the process of producing surplus value. On the other hand, it also probably let dispatched labors reluctantly accepted the unequal labor environment, sacrificed their relative rights in order to obtain the jobs and submit to this system under the economic pressure.

However, it is worth to notice that government uses a large number of contract-projected rather than dispatched workers. Besides the data of dispatched labors are lack precisely, whether or not contract-projected labors are the same as dispatched labors, their disserted fates after they are used were just like the dispatched labors.