Foreign Workers in Taiwan Hong, Jon-Chao National Taiwan Normal University

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan B 、 Policies on Foreign Workers C 、 Social integration of foreigners living in Taiwan

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 1. Purposes of immigranting Foreign Worker (1) Solving the problems of labor shortages (2) Encouraging SMEs (3) Increasing national competitiveness & speeding up public construction (4) Providing sufficient caretakers

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 2. Classification of Foreign Workers (1) Major Infrastructure/Construction (2) The Major Investment Projects of Manufacture Industry (3) Housekeeper (4) Home Care Assistant (5) Foreign Shipmates

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 3. Statistics of Foreign Workers in Taiwan (1) Number of Foreign Workers in Taiwan: Classified by industries allowed to hire foreign workers Number of People:

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 3. Statistics of Foreign Workers in Taiwan (2) Number of Foreign Workers in Taiwan 一 Classified by Industries Number of People:

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 3. Statistics of Foreign Workers in Taiwan (3) Number of Foreign Workers in Taiwan 一 Classified by Nationality Number of People:

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 3. Statistics of Foreign Workers in Taiwan (4) Number of Foreign Workers in Taiwan’s Manufacture Industry: Classified by five manufacture industries hiring most foreign workers Number of People:

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 3. Statistics of Foreign Workers in Taiwan (5) Number of Missing Foreign Workers: Classified by Nationality Number of People: Note ： Missing Rate=Number of Missing Workers/Average Number of Foreign worker in Taiwan*100%

A 、 Foreign workers in Taiwan 3. Statistics of Foreign Workers in Taiwan (6) Classification of Number of Foreign workers in Taiwan by Nationality and Age (Until the end of Aug, 2005) Number of People:

B 、 Policies on Foreign workers 1. The Main Points of Current Policies for Foreign Workers (1) The principles to introduce foreign workers (2) Tighten to numbers of foreign workers (3) Salary rationalized schemes (4) Employers shall not violet the related laws

(5) To safeguard the basic rights of foreign workers (6) “Approval and Management Regulations Governing the Employment of Foreign Nationals” (7) Introducing fee’s adjustment (8) To promote the related measures B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

2. Employment and Management of Foreign Workers (1) Working permission for foreign workers with application (2) The providing of Reasonable working condition (3) The high lighten agreement of contract B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

(4) The limitation of working period— Extension period (5) The limitation of working period— Contracts terminated B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

3. The Transferring of Foreign Workers (1) Employers died or emigrated (2) Employer’s boats were detained, sunk or in repairs (3) The employers closed their factories, went out of business B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

(4) The other matters that the foreign workers should bear no responsibility (5) Regulation for paying employment stability fees for foreign workers (6) Transferring foreign worker to other new employers (7) Medical examination B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

(8) 3 days limited to report missing foreign workers (9) The necessary fees should paid by employers B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

4. Lowering down the brokerage fee for foreign workers (1) CLA revised the regulation about brokerage (2) brokerage should not over one month foreign workers’ basic wages (3) To Promote direct hiring programs B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

(4) Government revised the regulation to open NPO (5) The precaution schemes of overcharging brokerage (6) The approaches to reduce broker’s fees B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

5. Stopping unjustified repatriation (1) Regulations on the Permission and Administration of the Employer of Foreign Persons (2) Foreign workers counseling service centers (3) The preventive means of foreign worker’s repatriation B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

6. Prohibition of any form of forced conducts or discrimination (1) To prevent foreign workers from disappearing (2) The marriage or pregnancy regulations (3) “ Gender Equality in Employment Law” B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

7. Protection of physical safety (1) Systems and guidelines (2) Hot line service (3) Guidebook (4) Excluded right to hire foreign workers B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

8. Establish counseling Service Network for Foreign workers * 24 counseling and Service center * Toll-free hot lines with bilingual speakers B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

9. Ensuring the employers pay the salary according to labor contract (1) CLA revised the regulations to ensure the workers’ salary (2) Salary slip as an evidence in the court (3) Day-to-Day Management Plan B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

10. The financial management for foreign workers B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

11. Preventing occupational accidents (1) Medical check-ups and safety seminars are required (2) Educational kit B 、 Policies on Foreign workers

(3) The statistics analyses of occupational accidents (4) General accident labor insurance program (5) Task force for occupational accidents

C. Social integration of foreigners living in Taiwan 1. More efforts on Day-to-Day counseling (1) To adapt to the life style in Taiwan (2) 24 counseling service center and hot lines (3) Assign full-time management Assign bilingual workers (4) Foreign workers in strict accordance with the “Day-to Day Management Plan”

2. Prevent unjustified tax pre-deduction (1) Employers have to obey tax payment regulations (2) “What foreign works in Taiwan need to know” published by CLA to help foreign workers (3) Investigation efforts have also been made by CLA C. Social integration of foreigners living in Taiwan

3. Join the Labor Insurance & National Health Insurance Systems *Labor Insurance *National Health Insurance

4. Organize recreational activities *Series of recreational activities --radio programs --cultural events C. Social integration of foreigners living in Taiwan

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