Migrant workers have been enjoying better labor protection in Taiwan since a controversial five-day-workweek policy was implemented in August last year.
The Department of Labor of Taoyuan, northwestern Taiwan, says the amount of overtime pay for migrant workers who sought help from the department was NT$14 million (more than US$463,500) in the first half of this year. It said that was an increase from a year ago, according to a report by United Daily News, but it did not disclose the amount of overtime pay in the first half of 2016.
The number of labor disputes in Taoyuan, which has 20,000 foreign caregivers and 70,000 migrant factory workers, reached 1,907 in the first half of the year, most of which were due to issues involving overtime pay, it said. A total of 504 cases were settled.
Other employer malpractices included treating workers improperly, taking away employees’ passports, and discrimination.
The five-day-week policy, launched by Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, ensures that a worker can enjoy one fixed holiday per week and another flexible rest day. A worker can get overtime pay if he or she is required to work on the flexible rest day.
Since the new rule was implemented in August 2016, the amount of outstanding overtime pay increased as migrant workers were entitled to higher wages, said Chang Cher-hung, chief of the Foreign Workers Service Section.
Chang said employers who failed to pay their employees overtime could be subject to fines ranging from NT$20,000 to NT$1 million.
The new rule was also implemented in other parts of Taiwan but local governments can set their own pace of launching penalties.
Panu po pag straight Monday to sunday panu po bayad ng sunday kc samin hndi ot dagdag lang ng 700.3nt
Hope Caretakers are also included in the increase of wages….Dahil kung tutuusin lugi ibang Caretakers dahil minsan kami din bumibili pagkain nmn dahil wala nmn masarap na.pagkain s mga amo nmn…and one thibg more sa pag day off dapat di kinakaltas lahat dahil naturingan ngang day off pero kelangan.pa ring tapusin muna trabaho bago.lumabas at pagdating ng bahay kelangan mo pa ribg magtrabaho.. So unfair….
Jhoven Gatchalian sir san kayo nagsampa ng kaso pahelp naman po. kasi hirap sa amin wala na nga kami restday baba pa ng bayad sa amin pag overtime
Ang nkakainis lng jan kming mga caretaker nlng plage kawawa d ksma sa pgtaas ng sahod #hustisya��
Jason Ang,,,,,,, sir hindi nyo po ba nababasa ang nakasaad na 20,000 foreign caregivers? Ano nalang po pala yan? Dahil bakit nyo po sinasabi na caregivers not included. Pwede po paki explain!
12hours duty work
far eastern new century yan 5 days off nmin sa isang buwan ,sahod namin 23 to 25kNT malinis lang
di naman sinusunod ng ibang company yan katulad samin
Hoping companies from different part of taiwan will be responsible enough for this new law..
Jason
sir pwede po magreklamu pero pagdating naman pagtapos kana magreklamu pagiinitan ka naman ng mga boss bossan dito sa company hahanapan ka ng butas..iba ugali ng mga tao dito e.
Ganyan din po samin regular pay lang din kapag holiday ..sa mga taiwander lang ata effective yang policy nila sa bouble pay e..
Opo hindi namn tlga naiimplement ng maigi..my arc na kami pero limitado parin ang labas namin sa company..para saan pa arc namin kung kada isang oras lang kami pwede sa labas tapos kapag lumagpas sa 1hour ibabawas sa oras na five hours namin na 6 sa isang buwan..tapos laging panakot samin yan…sasabihin hindi nila pipirmahan yong paglabas namin sa dorm kapag my problema ka mi sa trabaho…saklap
Yep,they are unfair
Ok malinaw pa sa sikat ng araw ang sagot mo!bawal pala magtanong dto anyway tnx
13k for a month?
Night or Day shift grabe sila. Buti sa company namin ok naman.
Kuya. i think ang ibig nyang sabihin is Local Taiwanese kc po Batas ang pinag uusapan.
Marilou Espino, it the employer violates the law and your broker doesnt help you to talk to the management you can go and ask help from Migrante International Taiwan Chapter and even with BUGKOS in Taichung
This kind of news lead to many comments or should i say complaints of too many migrant workers who are not being paid of OT, not being given of new salary increase, and what else to enumerate other concerns.. next time please write your headline more specific… Migrant workers? Who are the migrant workers under this privilege? Factory workers? Caretakers? Caregivers? Are all included? Are specific measures being done to make sure all employers are implementing or giving this **** to their migrant workers? …. Make a poll on this..go to the streets and make an interview ..9 out of 10 are what..go ask the migrant workers and you’ll see how true is real your news is… 🙂
FIVE DAY WORK-WEEK POLICY. Having one fixed holiday and another flexible holiday (yung flexible holiday depende if may Ot ka.. that’s what the article said.) then how about that flexible day you choose to rest, do the company have the rights to complain why you don’t go overtime? Or i mean pagalitan ka pag di mo napasukan? Just asking..