🇹🇼How does Taiwan mark What the law gives you after a child is born?

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Taiwan's maternity leave sits in Article 50 of the Labour Standards Act: work stops before and after childbirth for eight weeks, or four weeks for a miscarriage after three months of pregnancy. The pay threshold is in the second paragraph — wages continue in full for those employed six months or more, and at half pay for those below that, so the same leave at the same company can be full or half pay, and the dividing line is only the hiring date. The Act of Gender Equality in Employment adds two more pieces: Article 15 gives seven days of prenatal check-up leave and seven days of accompanying and paternity leave to the spouse, both fully paid; Article 16 allows unpaid parental leave after six months of service, until the child turns three and for no more than two years, during which the employee may stay in the original social insurance, with the employer's share waived and the employee's own share deferrable for three years. Eight weeks is not long among these seven markets; the real variable is whether those two unpaid years are affordable.