According to the regulations, foreigners who are married have the household registration in the Republic of China (Taiwan) are allowed to stay and no need to apply for the permission to work in Taiwan. However, some of loss joint employees fake their status as the new resident, even manage to use someone else’s ID to apply for the job. The Tainan Municipal Labor Bureau calls that if you hire the foreigner, please being sure to verify the “residence permit” and “household registration” to avoid the deception.
Xiao Chen started his work by rely of the craftsmanship and finally have his own small shop. Every day, during the meal time, there are a lot of people going in. A foreigner, namely “Tina” offered to help and claimed that her husband is a Taiwanese. She also took out a picture of her husband with her son as a proof and Xiao Chen did not suspect anything, he immediately let Tina to start working.
He did not expect that on the same day, Tina was arrested by the police because she is a loss joint employee, not a new resident. Xiao Chen regretted, because he is not familiar with the law. But as it is the first day of employment, he has not paid Tina’s salary, therefore should be no illegal employment.
The Tainan Municipal Labor Bureau said that as long as the foreigner allowed to work without permission by the law, the employer still have the provision under the Employment Service Act, made Xiao Chen to face a fine about $ 150.000 to 750.000 NTD.
The officer said, many illegal migrant workers often pretend to have the new resident status in order to work. Some of them even managed to use other’s ID card to apply for a job. Therefore, before hiring the new resident, the employer must ask the foreigner to bring the ARC and the household registration document transcript to apply for the job. Do not feel sorry in order to avoid the trouble, it will be more troublesome to hire the illegal migrant workers.
