Taiwan Business TOPICS
New measures seek to combat China’s talent poaching
China has been targeting Taiwanese semiconductor talent in an effort to fuel its domestic chipmaking capabilities. In response, the Executive Yuan in April formed a task force to establish measures to combat Chinese talent poaching and in early May, the Ministry of Labor (MOL) ordered that Taiwanese job bank websites remove all listings for jobs located in China.
In a letter banning Taiwanese manpower agencies from posting Chinese recruitment ads and acting as an intermediary for Chinese employers, the MOL cited Articles 34 and 35 of the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area. Those articles prohibit certain kinds of advertising and investment or technological cooperation. The MOL stated that non-compliance would result in fines of ranging from NT$100,000 to NT$500,000 for illegal advertisements and NT$50,000 to NT$5 million for intermediary affiliations.
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Taiwan bans recruitment for jobs in China to combat brain drain
Sun Online Desk
Taiwan has told staffing companies to remove all listings for jobs in China, a drastic move to prevent the outflow of vital tech talent to the mainland amid rising tensions between Taipei and Beijing.
The Labor Ministry said that all Taiwanese and foreign staffing companies on the island as a general rule may no longer post openings for jobs located in China, especially those involving critical industries such as integrated circuits and semiconductors, according to a notice seen by Nikkei Asia.
The move comes as Beijing seeks to build up the mainland s semiconductor industry a goal that has intensified demand for Taiwanese engineers.
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Taiwan’s labor ministry has ordered online job boards to remove all listings by Chinese employers attempting to recruit Taiwanese engineers to their semiconductor firms, an escalation in an intensifying technology standoff as the world looks to Taiwan to alleviate a global chip shortage.
The move comes as Taiwan continues to withstand a historic drought that has threatened the speed of chip production, which requires lots of water.
In an official notice, the Ministry of Labor said it would increase the enforcement of existing laws that prevent Taiwanese job sites from listing advertisements from Chinese firms.
The ministry, in the notice, accused China of stealing Taiwan’s chipmaking technology and poaching its talent, according to the job recruiting website 104 Job Bank.