An employer may deduct only labor insurance fees, health insurance premiums, income taxes, and meal and lodging fees from the wages of a foreign worker. Violators face fines of NT$60,000 to NT$300,000 ($1,940 to $9,700) and loss of hiring privileges. Critics, however, complained that...
The Labor Inspection Law replaces the old Factory Law. It empowers the Council of Labor Affairs and local governments to inspect conditions in the workplace to ensure the safety and health of workers. The scope of inspections carried out under the law covers health and safety, labor insurance,...
A migrant care worker has to register for a transfer at a government-run employment service center, which will advertise her service to household employers for 14 days. Only if no employers express interest in hiring her can she start to seek job opportunities in other industries. Because there...
Department registered the demands of the workers in the courtyard, and many workers' luggage was stacked at the factory gate. Worker Xiao Li said that before the new year, the boss promised to start work as usual after the year, but after that, workers returned to the factory and found th...
By some estimates, the US semiconductor industry will face a worker shortfall of between 59,000 and 146,000 workers by 2029. A minimum of 50,000 trained semiconductor engineers will be needed over the next several years in the US to meet the overwhelming and rapidly growing demand, ac...
different part of the city. I tell my co-worker I’m not exactly hard to miss in Kaohsiung and stand there for a moment thinking there’s more to the story. There isn’t; someone saw me somewhere, that person thought my co-worker should know and my co-worker thought I should know....