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However, if a migrant worker leaves their workplace, the employer must pay the employment stabilization fee until the migrant worker returns or the contract period with the migrant worker ends. As of 15 October 2023 Ministry of Labor (Taiwan) eased the conditions of hiring overseas caregivers to make it easier for individuals in need to hire them.
The Taiwan Association of Family Caregivers (TAFC) [35] was built in 1996. It is the first non-profit organization to voice the rights for family caregivers in Taiwan. The association encourages each city to set up a chapter in order to provide family caregivers with services. The main association is in Taipei and there are ten chapters around ...
The Labor Standards Law, which prohibits forced labor under Articles 5 and 75, ensures overtime rates, and sets limits on the work-day and work-week. However, this law does not apply to the 160,000 foreign workers employed as private nursing caregivers or domestic helpers on Taiwan, who are especially vulnerable to labor exploitation.
Taiwan is a multi-party democracy.The 2000 presidential victory of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Chen Shui-bian followed more than 50 years of rule by the Kuomintang (KMT) and marked the first transition from one political party to another in the Taiwanese history, reported by a Government Information Office (GIO) website as the "first ever in Chinese history". [1]
Migrant domestic workers are (according to the International Labour Organization’s Convention No. 189 and the International Organization for Migration) any persons "moving to another country or region to better their material or social conditions and improve the prospect for themselves or their family," [1] engaged in a work relationship performing "in or for a household or households."
Taiwan amended three laws governing sexual harassment in a special session of the legislature, after a wave of #MeToo accusations hit the island in June. The changes are an attempt to address the ...
1 – excluding holders of entry visas bearing the remark FL (migrant worker), X (others), or P with “Special permission from MOFA” (visa and eVisa for “Project for Simplifying Visa Regulations for High-end Group Tourists from Southeast Asian Countries (Project Kuan-Hong)” ever issued), as well as holders of resident cards with ...
Italy will offer an extra 10,000 migrant work visas next year for people who look after old people and the disabled, the government said on Wednesday, as it adopted a new package of migration rules.