In 1988, after the adoption of the Regulations of Basic Wage, the Council of Labor Affairs formulated basic wage related policy and began to have adjustments every year.
Because of the Asian financial crisis, a large number of industrial relocation, and other factors, it did not adjust it for nearly a decade from 1997 to 2007.
The Executive Yuan announces and implements the related policy of the basic wage.
Once the basic wages of foreign workers were decoupled, Taiwan would be contrary to its own commitments in the international arena.
In 28 August 2013, the CLA held the 26th the basic wage review committee.
The government wants to avoid labor disputes caused by the annual committee and set a threshold of the basic wage to reconvene the council.