/ Staff writer, with CNAThe Control Yuan has ordered the Ministry of Labor to enforce existing legal protections for pregnant migrant workers, following an investigation into the issue by two of its members.
The Control Yuan has ordered the Ministry of Labor to enforce existing legal protections for pregnant migrant workers, following an investigation into the issue by two of its members.
Control Yuan members Wang Yu-ling (王幼玲) and Wang Mei-yu (王美玉) at a news conference on Monday said that the Control Yuan had issued the ministry a directive to take corrective measures after reviewing the investigation on April 20.
Wang Yu-ling said that Taiwan removed pregnancy tests from migrant workers’ routine health checks in 2015 and implemented a law prohibiting employers from firing migrant workers for becoming pregnant.
Despite those protections, employers and brokers often
Taipei, May 2 (CNA) The Control Yuan has ordered the Ministry of Labor (MOL) to enforce existing legal protections for pregnant migrant workers in Taiwan, following an investigation into the issue by two of its members.
The Control Yuan has censured the Miaoli County Government and the Ministry of Health and Welfare for regulatory failures, following the death last year of an autistic man who had allegedly been beaten while a resident at a care facility for people with disabilities, it said on Thursday.
The agency on Wednesday issued corrective measures on the county government and the ministry, which it said was at fault for the death of a 28-year-old man surnamed Lee (李), who in July last year died while staying at De Fang House of Correction in Miaoli’s Zaociao Township (造橋) after he was allegedly
The Kinmen County Government has been censured over its failure last year to uphold migrant workers’ rights and gross negligence of duties after it refused to process sexual harassment complaints filed by Indonesian workers.
Control Yuan members Yeh Ta-hua (葉大華) and Wang Mei-yu (王美玉) on Friday last week said in a statement that the sister of a migrant worker had called the Ministry of Labor’s 1995 hotline on July 20 last year complaining that the worker was facing sexual harassment and unfair treatment by her workforce agency, including being asked to do work outside her job description.
The woman’s passport had been