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.
Dangdut music and the smell of cooking fill the air at the three-story Shelter Indonesia KDEI Taipei, a temporary home run by the Indonesian Economic and Trade Office to Taipei (IETO) for migrant workers awaiting deportation.
The 331m2 facility is one of six shelters established by the office and one of two that accepts workers who have “absconded” from their employers.
“Absconded” workers are those who have fled their place of legal employment, said Fajar Nuradi, director of the Indonesian Citizens Protection and Social Cultural Department at the IETO.
Yet at the shelter, where during an average stay of two weeks residents are
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) Dangdut music and the smell of cooking fill the air at the three-story Shelter Indonesia KDEI Taipei, a temporary home for undocumented migrant workers awaiting deportation, run by the Indonesian Economic and Trade Office (IETO) to Taipei.
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.