The Highway Bureau is reportedly considering recruiting international students and students of ethnic Han descent to fill positions as bus drivers, provided they speak intermediate-level Chinese. This continues the pattern of Taiwan opening up migrant worker categories for the so-called “3D”–“dirty, dangerous, and demeaning”–jobs that Taiwanese no longer want to take up themselves...
Food delivery workers have hailed new legislation passed by the Legislative Yuan as a victory. The new laws will require delivery workers to be paid at least 45 NT per order. The delivery time of orders will also be used to provide a minimum wage no less than 1.25 times the minimum hourly wage. The Ministry of Labor will be the competent authority for the labor rights of migrant workers and will be required to draw up provisions for pay calculation, contract termination, and etc. The Taiwan Delivery Industry Union Alliance and National Delivery Industrial Union have hailed the bill as a victory after six-and-a-half years of campaigning, then...
The Ministry of Labor has rolled out new regulations for internships in the hospitality industry. The regulations are framed as strengthening the labor rights for students, as well as ensuring that internships do not become de facto forms of employment...
In July of this year, an exhibition in the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) was censored at the behest of Chinese authorities. The exhibition was titled "Constellation of Complicity: Visualising the Global Machinery of Authoritarian Solidarity" and focused on authoritarian governments. The BACC is among Thailand’s leading contemporary art centers...
