Migrant workers call for legal protections in Women s Day rally
03/08/2021 06:38 PM
CNA photo March 8, 2021
Taipei, March 8 (CNA) Migrant domestic workers in Taiwan, supported by representatives from labor rights groups, rallied in front of the Legislative Yuan on Women s Day to ask for legal protections of their rights and welfare.
About 100 demonstrators, mostly caregivers from the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, chanted slogans asking for support for migrant domestic workers, who are generally women.
They also held placards with their appeals written in different languages.
Marisa Garcia, a Filipino domestic worker who was hit by a motorcycle in June 2020, joined the rally in a wheelchair.
Migrant workers, rights groups protest in Taipei
LEGISLATIVE PROTECTION: A ‘household service act’ is needed to protect foreign domestic workers, who are not currently covered by the Labor Standards Act
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
About 200 migrant workers and workers’ rights advocates yesterday rallied in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei to push for legislation to guarantee legal protection for domestic workers.
At the heart of the protesters’ demands is a proposed “household service act” that the Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT) a coalition of grassroots migrants’ rights organizations that organized the protest has been pushing for since 2003.