If you have friends and employees that believe in Islam, please come here! This year, the time of Ramadan begins on May 6 and will be end on June 4. A friend who believes in Islam does not eat or drink during the day time of Ramadan, it is known as the fasting.
The Workforce Development Agency of the Ministry of Labor stated that there are about 260.000 migrant workers from Indonesia, most of them believe in Islam. Most of them are working in the family for caring or manufacturing, closely connected with our lives. Indonesian new residents, in the statistics at the end of September 2018 are about 27.000 people.
The Workforce Development Agency recently issued the document that reminding the employers who have the employees that believe in Islam to help them in the three principles, assist in the smooth transition of work, closer to the workers, and turning the motivation for working in Taiwan with a peace of mind: a normal heart, two active care, and three elastic adjustment work.
Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim worshipping calendar. Muslims all around the world will be fasting in this month, from the sunrise to sunset. Therefore, they can eat before the sunrise, replenish the energy that needed throughout the day, go to pray, and increase the time to read the Quran. When the migrant workers are fasting during the day of the fasting month, please respect their religious beliefs, and treat them with a good heart.
In addition, the Workforce Development Agency reminded that Muslims are fasting, stop eating and drinking in the day time, if there is any physical discomfort, please give your care and appropriate assistance.
Third, Muslim migrant workers or new residents have to keep the fast for a month. They have to fast on the day time, prohibit all the disputes. In this month, they still can work. As for migrant workers, their performance is affected by the fasting, the employers can be more tolerant, give a helping hand if necessary, give a work transfer flexibility, let the migrant workers feel at ease through fasting, return to the pure state of the soul.
