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Taipei, May 9 (CNA) A coalition of civil groups promoting migrant worker rights issued a joint declaration Sunday urging changes to existing regulations on the employment of migrant workers, which it described as "anti-freedom," "anti-equality," and "anti-public."
Groups urge law to protect migrant domestic workers
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
More than 100 migrant workers and workers’ rights advocates yesterday rallied outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei calling on the government to enact a “household service act” to protect the labor conditions of migrant domestic workers.
The rally was organized by the Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT) a group of grassroots organizations advocating for the rights of migrant workers in the nation, with members including the Taiwan International Workers’ Association, the Hsinchu Migrants and Immigrants Service Center, and Caritas Taiwan.
As of the end of March, there were 713,933 migrant workers in the nation, about 34 percent of whom were home care workers, the MENT said in a statement.
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.