The owner of a kuih manufacturer in New Taipei City violated the Employment Service Act by hiring four migrant employees who typically had full-time employment at a wage of NT$170 in order to cut personnel costs and a shortage of workers. In less than three months, they were reported and received punishment. Also, the owner requested the foreign domestic caregiver to help the work in the manufacturer without got paid. The owner of the kuih manufacturer was fined NT$230,000 following a probe by the Labor Affairs Bureau of New Taipei City. Although the four migrant workers came to Taiwan to work legally, however, they had violated Employment Service Act by utilized their regular jobs and worked part-time in other companies.
Although the foreign caregiver is able to continue to work for the original family, if the employer is found violated for another time, their employment visa will be cancelled, and they will be placed with another family that has applied for them.
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Even for migrant workers who come to Taiwan to work legally, part-time work is still illegal.Photo provided by Tainan City Government
As of the end of 2022, "employment of illegal disconnected migrant workers or migrant workers who had formerly applied by others" accounted for 39.69% of all illegal migrant worker employment in New Taipei City, according to information provided by the city government. Labor Affairs Bureau of New Taipei City reminds that if the employers that when there is a need to hire migrant workers, the identity of the immigrant workers must be verified and "migrant workers already employed by others" must not be recruited to avoid infringing the law.
