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...
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...
Several hundred people marched from the Ministry of Labor to the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Sunday to protest the 12-year work limit on migrant workers’ employment in Taiwan. A sea of red headbands touted the phrase: “Abolish the work-year limit.”...
Earlier this year, the Lai administration announced plans to relax requirements that individuals aged 80 years or older, or who are between 70 and 79 but suffer from stage 2 cancer or above, need to pass a Barthel index examination before hiring a migrant caregiver. This was the result of legislation passed last year by the KMT-controlled legislature...
Filipino migrant workers at the TaiDoc Technology Corporation are demonstrating against union-busting and infringements of the basic rights of migrant workers at the company. TaiDoc is a major medical parts manufacturer based in New Taipei, while migrant workers are organized through the TaiDoc Technology Labor Union ...
The National Immigration Agency has announced that it has dismantled a labor ring led by a Taiwanese man, surnamed Hung, and his Indonesian wife, surnamed Hou...
In a surprise move, Giant Bicycle products manufactured in Taiwan have been blocked by US Customs and Border Protection on the basis of evidence of forced labor. The ban applies to bicycles, bicycle parts, and accessories, and takes place through a Withhold Release Order...
A group of scholars and civil society organizations released a statement earlier this month about the Pingtung District Prosecutors’ Office’s decision not to prosecute the vessel owners of the You-fu. Specifically, the statement criticizes the failure of Pingtung prosecutors to charge the vessel owners on charges of human trafficking. The signatory organizations were the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, the Taiwan Labour Front. Serve the People Association, International Center of Cultural Studies, and Work Better Innovations...
A raid on a nightclub venue in Tainan earlier this month led to the arrest of 107 migrant workers, who were primarily Vietnamese. Among them, 11 workers were found to have illegally left their place of employment. The partygoers were mostly in their 20s and 30s...
