More than 70% of firms plan Lunar New Year bonusStaff writer, with CNAMore than 70 percent of companies in Taiwan have said they would pay their employees a cash bonus at the end of the lunar year in January next year, with most of them planning to give 1.17 months’ wage on average, a yes123 job bank survey released yesterday found. The other 73.3 percent are planning to pay a bonus similar to this year’s, which averaged 1.17 months’ salary, it said. Photo: Tyrone Siu, ReutersMeanwhile, 8.9 percent of the companies polled by the job bank said they had decided not to give their employees a bonus in January, and 19.7 percent were still considering the issue. Regarding employees’ expectations, the poll found that 72.1 percent were anticipating a year-end bonus of 1.06 months’ salary on average, while 27.9 percent did not think they would receive a bonus. A similar survey carried out by yes123 last year found that 66.9 percent of companies in Taiwan had planned to give bonuses, while 4.8 percent did not intend to.
