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Article 2
Arrangements made by employers and employees that are superior to those provided for by the Act shall be respected.
The Act is applicable to civil servants, educational personnel and military personnel, provided that, Articles 33, 34 and 38 of the Act shall not be applicable.
Complaints, remedies and processing procedures for civil servants, educational personnel and military personnel shall be handled in accordance with respective statutes and regulations governing personnel matters.
The Act is applicable to those trainee-apprentices who are recruited by employers in accordance with the Labor Standard Act and those who are applicable to, mutatis mutandis, the trainee-apprentice provisions of that Act, except for those trainee-students who are protected by the related provisions in the Act of Implementing Cooperation Programs for Training and Education and Protecting Rights and Interests of the Trainee-Students in the Senior High Schools, provided that, Articles 16-17 of the Act shall not be applicable.
For those trainees who are sexually harassed during the duration of their training, the related provisions of the Act shall be applicable.

Article 3
The terms used in the Act shall be defined as follows:
1. Employee means a person who is hired by an employer to work for wages.
2. Applicant means a person who is applying a job from an employer.
3. Employer means a person, a public or private entity or authority that hires an employee. A person who represents an employer to exercise managerial authority or who represents an employer in dealing with employee matters is deemed to be an employer. Dispatched entities utilizing dispatched workers are deemed as employers as provided in Articles 8, 9, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 36 of the Act.
4. Trainee means a student of a public or registered private senior high school or above who is participating in an extracurricular training program.
5. Dispatched entity means a unit that is actually ordering and supervising a dispatched workers doing the work in accordance with a dispatching contract.
6. Dispatched worker means a worker who is employed by a dispatching entity and actually works for the dispatched entity.
7. Dispatching entity means a business entity that engages in labor dispatching business.
8.Wage means the compensation which an employee receives for his/her services rendered, including wages, salaries and bonuses, allowances, and other regular payments regardless of the name which may be computed on an hourly, daily, monthly or piecework basis, whether payable in cash or in kind.
9. Reinstatement means reinstate to the previous job held by the employee who has applied for and used the unpaid parental leave referred to in the Act.

Article 38
Employers violate Article 21 or Article 36 of the Act, shall be fined no less than N.T. $20,000 but not exceeding N. T. $300,000.
For those who commit one of the conduct referred to in the preceding paragraph, their names or titles, and the responsible persons shall be put on public notice, and shall be ordered to improve within a specificed period, and shall be fined and punished consecutively for each violation after the said period expires.

Article 38-1
Employers who violate Articles 7-10, Paragraph 1 and 2 to Article 11, or the final part of Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 to Article 12, shall be fined no less than N.T.$100,000 but not exceeding N.T.$500,000.
For those who commit one of the conduct referred to in the preceding paragraph, their names or titles, and the responsible persons shall be put on public notice, and shall be ordered to improve within a specificed period, and shall be fined and punished consecutively for each violation after the said period expires.

Article 40
The Act shall become effective on March 8, 2002.
The implementation date of amendments to this Act shall take effect since the date of promulgation, except the effective date of revised Article 16 made on December 19, 2007 shall be determined by the Executive Yuan.