Taiwanese tycoon Ho Shou-chuan, former chairman of Bank SinoPac, and his wife Chang Sing-ju, who had been accused of illegally forcing Filipino migrant workers to work as their maids and exploiting them, had their charges dropped by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office on Monday.
On October 10, 2015, the Department of Labor of the Taipei City Government received a complaint filed by two Filipino migrant workers alleging that they had been forced by their employers to do unauthorized work at a unit of Yiping Yuan, a high-end residential building in Taipei, China Daily News reported.
Three days after the report, officers from the department found three Filipinos doing household chores at the unit, which was later identified as the residence E Ink Holdings general manager Lee Cheng-hau, the son-in-law of Ho and Chang.
According to previous reports by Taiwan Apple Daily, the three Filipinos were initially hired as technicians at E Ink Holdings, but Lee arranged for them to become his maids instead. Two of them would also be assigned to take care of the residential unit of Ho and Chang.
For three years, the two Filipinos were required to work more than 14 hours a day from 6:30am to 9pm, without a weekly day off. They were not allowed to leave the house to check or withdraw their wages.
According to Taiwanese labor law, one of the workers should have received NT$500,000 (US$16,450) and the other more than NT$100,000 in overtime payments, based on the fact that they were estimated to have worked 5.5 hours extra on average every day.
The workers sought help from the Department of Labor after they were left without food when the Lee family went abroad during the National Day holidays.
The Taipei District Prosecutors Office previously fined Lee and E Ink Holdings NT$750,000 each for violations of the Employment Service Act. However, Lee was found not guilty of abusing the workers as he had paid their salaries accordingly.
As for the Ho couple, because the two victims had been hired by Lee, Ho and Chang were not considered their employers, and they did not infringe on their rights to use mobile phones or to go into and out the residence, so the Prosecutors Office dropped the charges against the pair after an investigation found that the two workers’ residence permits and work visas had been confiscated by the employment agency, not the Hos.
ginagawa p din ng ibng taiwanese ang sobrang work almost 15hours minsan tpos ilang house pa pinapalinis sk ungbcontrata ginagmit nila mga relative nla ky illegal ang iba ,ang mga broker napakaangas ung iba ,,caretaker nmn ang ngbibigay ng sahod saknila 1800,1700,to 1500 ky nu lng matitira sa caretaker tpos my lending pa sk insurance n binabyaran .pg ng day off kaltas pa work nmn pg dumating c caretaker gling day off
Go back to the PhiLippines if you feeL you are working too much. You are expLoited because you aLLow them by your desperation. Go back home and compLain how much worse it is there. I was offered a job in PH and I turned it down before they couLd say a figure. ????
Taiwan is not protecting much of caretaker, They are treating them like slaves with low salary, longer work hours, not enough food given to caretaker, lack of sleep, reprimanding like animals. illegal fee charges to employee to have employer. Taiwan is also protecting their own citizen so that is the one reason why not given much attention of maltreatment of caretaker.
Isaach Casseiopia Yvonne tiis nalng sis mabait namn sila yon lang Ang problema subrang yaman nila kasi lagi nalng yong sarili nila inisip nila
magreklamo ka teh sa mecco call ka 1955 o kaya pahelp ka sa ibang pinay na kakilala mo na nandito pwede ka magchange ng employer
Saeb Ulz Angubna ako nga ipaglalaban ko bhe ung every yr na pwede taung umuwi wala ako day off un lang gusto ko na masunod bago lang ako dito
Agreed! They are indeed the poorest of the poor because they took advantage of ordinary people. They can’t be rich without the help of poor people.
Then help them for appeal until justice is gained.
Isaach Casseiopia Yvonne ung priority karamisahan sa mga amo dto kailangan trabaho lahat, walang hiya din mga ibang broker dahil d nila iniintindi ung asa contatra na caretaker , iba kc ung caretaker sa housekeeper , pinaglaban ko yan nuon lalot ung alaga ko maligalig d ko pede pagsabayan ang work sa,bahay tapos mag alaga kc mahirap. Kaya nagsabi ako na ang trabaho ko lang ay magalaga un nakalagay sa contrata ko kako, paano kung nagluluto ako tapos si lolo bumaba sa hagdan at nahulog cno may kasalan dba ako Kako kya cmula nuon sabi ng amo just look after my father dont do housework.
Saeb Ulz Angubna meron taung mandatory na day off nakalagay sa contract article 5 ata un pagkakaalam ko sa 1 week 1 day off so 4x a day na off sa isang buwan na di sinusunod ng broker at employer dapat kasi saten nilalaban naten pinirmahan naten kaso iba saten takot mapaginitan ng amo…at kahit malipat naman ibang amo ganun din ang ugali
saka awayan at selosan sa pamilya pati ikaw madadamay kesyo si ganyan sinunod mo si ganto di sinunod haiiiiissssttt kaloka sila madami amo madami trabaho wala man lang o.t sa gabi….
Anne Dela Cruz akoo sa gabi natutulog ako kahit gising si ahma tinutulugan ko tabi kami matulog kaya nararamdaman ko pag bumabangon sya eto naman alaga ko di sya bumabangon sa umaga linis ako di naman pinalilinis skin lahat kaya wala masyado ginagawa may kusa naman ako na linis na po ganto sqbihin sqka na o wag tapos pag dumating broker sabihin wag daw ako parelax haist tapos sabihin si ahma priority pag priority mo matandq sabihin wag masyadong magfocus sa matanda gawain bahay din kahit sabay mo nagagawa may comment pa din ..haisst kaya ako dedma pag nagawa ko trabaho ko maaus ano man sqbihin nila di kp nlng pinapansin alam ko sarili ko nagawa ko trabaho ko
mas maraming ngang ofw jn s hongkong ang inaabuso eh.report about in ofw in taiwan is minimal unlike.other country like hongkong mdlas manykis employer.n llki
Sa hk 28 hrs.a day pa nga tapos walang pahinga yon, mas maigi pa nga d2 sa taiwan kompara sa hk, balasubas karamihan employer sa hk
same with me I’ve been 3 years here without taking day off cannot go out to buy something…haiss too difficult to have a situation like this..????????