DPP legislator named labor minister amid bullying-suicide controversy

Hung Sun-han (洪申翰), a legislator-at-large of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has been named labor minister to succeed Ho Pei-shan (何佩珊), who stepped down on Friday following criticism over her handling of a case in which a labor ministry staffer killed himself after allegedly being bullied by a supervisor, according to a Cabinet spokesperson.

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