The Ministry of Labour in Taiwan said it would ease labour laws that dictated employers were not allowed to hire replacement homeworkers in the event that their own foreign homeworkers were on holiday or vacation, to now allow employers to temporally replace homeworkers on holiday. They expected that the following measures would be implemented towards the end of November 2014 and onwards.
The Ministry of Labour in Taiwan said it would ease labour laws that dictated employers were not allowed to hire replacement homeworkers in the event that their own foreign homeworkers were on holiday or vacation, to now allow employers to temporally replace homeworkers on holiday. They expected that the following measures would be implemented towards the end of November 2014 and onwards.
Officials of the Taiwanese Ministry of Labour stated that the “temporary replacement of foreign homeworkers” system is currently in process whereby many homeworker’s organizations had asked for permission to import this group of workers and had sent them to work at hourly rates at households. Monthly hires also exists, whereby charging from 140 to 300 Taiwanese Dollars or depending on the services provided such as cooking and bathing at 280 Taiwanese Dollars per time. Moreover, the Taiwanese Ministry of Labour hopes to proceed on this new system in order to assist over 210,000 Taiwanese households dependent on foreign homeworkers and to also change the system of foreign homeworkers who must work and live with employers 24 hours and to protect foreign workers escaping too.
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The Office of Labour Reports
