Taipei, May 30 (CNA) A coalition of migrant workers' rights groups rallied Tuesday outside the Ministry of Labor (MOL), urging it to suspend a plan to recruit an additional 28,600 migrant workers in manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and caregiving without addressing the underlying issues in those sectors.
The government’s decision to increase the minimum wage for live-in migrant caregivers and domestic workers might help ease a labor shortage, but it would not do much to make Taiwan an internationally competitive destination for such workers, Taiwan International Workers’ Association member Chen Hsiu-lien (陳秀蓮) said on Wednesday.
The new policy, which was announced by the Ministry of Labor earlier in the day, increased the monthly minimum wage for migrant domestic workers to NT$20,000 from NT$17,000 a 17 percent increase, but still well below Taiwan’s standard minimum wage of NT$25,250.
The change applies only to newly arrived migrant workers and those
The Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT, 台灣移工聯盟) hosted the biennial Migrant Workers' March on Sunday, where more than 400 migrant workers gathered to call for the freedom to change employers in Taiwan.
Taipei, Jan. 16 (CNA) Hundreds of blue-collar migrant workers took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday, calling for the right to freely change employers in Taiwan if they wish to do so.
About 400 migrant workers took to the streets of Taipei yesterday, urging the government to allow them to switch employers freely.
Holding banners stating their appeals in several languages, the demonstrators assembled at Taipei Railway Station before passing the Democratic Progressive Party’s headquarters and eventually arriving in front of the Ministry of Labor, where they performed a skit in which they pushed down bamboo fences to symbolize the regulation restricting them from changing their listed employer.
Under the Employment Services Act (就業服務法), migrant workers are not allowed to change employers, except under special circumstances, such as being employed in a job that