An Indonesian official has suggested that maids and caregivers from the Southeast Asian country working in Taiwan should earn salaries in line with the island’s new minimum monthly wage of NT$22,000 (US$730) once it is implemented from January 1, 2018.
Agusdin Subiantoro, deputy head of the Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers, told Pacific Daily in an interview that the Indonesian government welcomed the rise in Taiwan’s minimum wage, which would guarantee better benefits for Indonesian migrant workers in factories and retirement homes.
However, according to current policy, Taiwan’s minimum wage does not cover domestic workers and home caregivers. At present there are 243,151 migrant workers in Taiwan’s social-welfare service sector, 77% of whom, or 187,281 people, are Indonesians.
Agusdin stressed that domestic workers and caregivers should benefit from the new minimum wage as well, or they deserve a pay rise by at least 10% to NT$19,000 from NT$17,000.
Separately, Nusron Wahid, head of the Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers, said in a recent interview that the agency had been stepping up efforts to ensure better rights for Indonesian caregivers in Taiwan.
The agency wants Taiwanese employers of Indonesian maids and caregivers to be responsible for shouldering all of their costs such as referral fees, fees for work visas, airfares, physical checkups, and training.
Taiwan government should consider an increase not just for indonesian caretakers but also for Filipino workers who works in same field.. if increase given to Caretakers or Caregivers it should be for all and not for just specific workers…Equality should be given to all foreign workers. .We work 24/7 so it is not just an easy job but it is indeed the most tiring and tough job..
Yeah it’s so unfair to us Filipinos worker ,,
Plss be fair madam/sir thank u for understanding ????????may Godbless!!
Philippine Government should also
urge raise for caretakers and caregiver’s salary/wages…Dapat bgyan nilang halaga tayo kasi mas mahirap na nga work natin mas mababa pa sahod natin…It is totally unfair…Di lang po factory workers ang tumutulong sa ekonomiya ng Pinas…kaya sana Mapansin din ninyo kaming nasa houseworkers/domestic /ct/cg sectors…
It’s not fair for us FILIPINOS too who are domestic and caregivers for we almost work 24 hours and yet some employers don’t provide enough food so workers must use their own money to buy food, workers shoulder also their medical and renewal of ARC so we ask also ur good government to include us in the increment of salaries…looking forward for your kind consideration and wide understanding== thank you sir/ madam
Sana magtulong tulong lahat ng govt agency di lng indonesian para tumaas dn ang sahod lahat ng caretakersno caregivers..
We Filipino home caretakers want to request also for additional wage salary because we work more than 12hrs a day.we before come to taiwan as a caretaker we took a training cost much money and medical expenses. We think we also deserve such wage increase. Thank you Asia Times for posting our comment and hope for positive results.
if ang indonesian leader phnu push na magtaas dn ang mga caretaker n shod cguro dpt my mga filipino dn n may katungkulan dto s taiwan n pwd mki pag negotiate para stn
how about the pilipino worker please its to unfair its same as cargiver
How about us the filipino worker.its really unfair..we same worker & mostly we work until over 8 hours and all around work..
How about the pilipino caregivers or helpers …we are the same as the indonisia workers …we need also to inrease our salary…its unfair to pilipino workers.I hope the goverment here in taiwan is fair to there workers!