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Taipei, April 3 (CNA) The Ministry of Labor (MOL) has agreed to a proposal by the Council of Agriculture (COA) to increase the number of agricultural migrant workers from 6,000 to 12,000 and relax the required ratio of local to migrant workers on individual farms to 1:1.
Taipei, Aug. 11 (CNA) The government's decision to raise the minimum wage for live-in migrant caregivers and domestic helpers may help to ease the current labor shortage, but it does little to make Taiwan an internationally competitive destination for such workers, a labor rights activist told CNA.
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