On the 15th July, the Ministry of Labour in Taiwan announced that Taiwanese employers were permitted to employ Vietnamese workers in the position of curators and sea workers (not including housekeepers) after an 11-year ban. The initial ban came from the reason that Vietnamese workers in the following positions had a high rate of illegal migration in which the Vietnamese government did not formulate any effective prevention methods.
On the 15th July, the Ministry of Labour in Taiwan announced that Taiwanese employers were permitted to employ Vietnamese workers in the position of curators and sea workers (not including housekeepers) after an 11-year ban. The initial ban came from the reason that Vietnamese workers in the following positions had a high rate of illegal migration in which the Vietnamese government did not formulate any effective prevention methods.
Director-General of the National Development Council Mr. Leiw Jiajin stated that Taiwan had announced the lift on the ban on importing Vietnamese workers, because Vietnam had formulated serious measures to resolve illegal migration of Vietnamese workers, imposing a penalty of 150,000 Taiwanese Dollars and a prohibition on leaving the country again for work. This had led to a decrease in the number of illegal Vietnamese migrants in 2014 to 5.77%, which was a close statistic to the number of illegal migrants in Taiwan at 5%. In addition to this, the Vietnamese government also implemented measures to guarantee that in the event an illegal Vietnamese worker was caught without money to return to Vietnam, then Vietnamese recruitment companies would be responsible for the travelling expenses back to the country within 1 month. For Vietnamese workers intending to work as curators in Taiwan, there is also a 200-hour training course in Chinese, practicing skills on caring for patients, including 100 hours on regulations/laws in Taiwan, before being permitted to work in Taiwan.
In May of 2015, there was a total of 2,134 illegal migrants in Taiwan, most of which were Vietnamese with 1,120 workers, followed by Indonesian, Fillipino and Thai workers at 939 people, 55 people and 20 people respectively.
Labour Office in Taipei
