'Mainland workers' rights should be protected'

BEIJING - A senior labor union leader in Taiwan is urging Taiwanese enterprises that have invested in the mainland to better protect workers' rights.

"Enterprises from Taiwan should adhere to the mainland's labor laws to guarantee that workers' rights are well-protected," Huang Ho Tsai-feng, director general of the Taiwan-based Cross-Straits Labor Development and Exchange Association, told China Daily at the sidelines of the 2011 Cross-Straits Labor Union Forum.

Her remarks came after a series of suicides and illnesses occurred in Taiwanese companies.