It is clear that Taiwan is at the very early beginning of what Singapore saw in April 2020, when a spike in COVID-19 infections amongst its migrant workers population led the government to order a lockdown of all migrant dormitories...
COVID-19 clusters broke out among migrant workers at electronics factories in Miaoli over the weekend, with 243 workers at three factories testing positive. This has, unfortunately, led to the rollout of discriminatory policies against migrant workers...
Migrant worker groups gathered outside of the Executive Yuan this morning to hold a small rally. Between thirty to fifty were in attendance. The rally began at 10 AM and lasted until just after 11 AM...
Migrant worker groups demonstrated in front of the Legislative Yuan on International Women’s Day on Monday, calling attention to the plight faced by female migrant workers in Taiwan. Around 100 migrant workers, who were primarily from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, were in attendance...
Two recent incidents highlight the dangers facing migrant workers in Taiwan, pointing to lax legal regulation and how that has resulted in dangerous and inhumane working conditions for migrant workers...
A factory fire in Taoyuan that broke out on Sunday killed a Filipino factory worker, after the worker sustained third-degree burns over 90% of his body...
The Taiwanese Ministry of Labor has condemned the Indonesian government for seeking to abolish broker fees, claiming that the Indonesian government was acting unilaterally in doing so, and seeking to displace costs onto Taiwanese consumers. This, however, is an incident in which the Ministry of Labor has sought to defend exploitative practices by brokers under the current broker system for migrant workers...
It should have proven of little surprise when Taiwan found itself on the US Department of Labor’s list of goods believed to be produced by forced labor for the first time late last month...
There has been increased focus on the issue of migrant fishermen abuses in Taiwan in the past month as a result of a Control Yuan probe into a 2019 report by Greenpeace ...
