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.
Mas magandang tanggalin nlng ung broker kasi ung iba wla ding pakinabang….
Mas maraming employer s hk kng mkpagpatrabaho s kanilang katulong akala nla pag mamay ari nla ung tao…… maraming katulad q non s hk n iisa lng reklamo, magicng ng alas 5:30 ng umaga at matulog ng 12 ng hating gabi….
SirJason Ang we thank you for helping them. I just want to share my feeling here being caretaker and also sharing the story of some friends similar in this situation..
Anne Dela Cruz , sana mabasa nila ito, true nangibang bansa tyo para maghanap ng pera at maiahon ang pamilya sa bansang sinilangan, pero tao lang din naman tyo hindi ba? Kailangan din naman natin magpahinga kaso my mga abusadong employer at broker wala paki alam. Kya dapat tyong mga caretaker talaga ang bigyan ng pansin at magkaroon ng mandatory day off pati.
gnyn din ko kya pg umga pinapakape ko mtnda pra d mtulog..pg tnghli khit my bcta bhla sila mtulog ako kng my reklmo sbhn ko wala ako tulog sa gbi kc d mtulog yn amah.
Yes they are ..because they have money and we don’t have..money works miracles
Jason Ang thank you for helping.out God will repay you with your goodness to foreigner like us. Thank you God bless
Wild Ijs Did you read and understand my comment? Did I say anything about their No day Offs as being a lie? What I am saying here is about the report that the Ho family was not penalized because the employer was the son in law ( but they’re working for the Ho family ). You don’t know anything about this whole story. And you won’t know it better than me, because I am their contact person when the HR needs tranlator ! Need I say anything more? Don’t f_ck_ng comment when you don’t know the whole story.
Shyle A. Gedtal ok sana ung brokers fee kung taasan nila sahod natin ng 21k kesa naman sa pagod na tyo my kita pa broker tapos d pa cla patas sa mga employess nila.
Relate much bhe
Saeb Ulz Angubna tama…kasi tau kasama nila..dapat may o.t din tau kada oras lalo sa gabi
Kya dapat tyo ang taasan ng sahod kc tayo ung gugol sa oras .
totoo yan di ka makakatulog dahil alaga mo gising sa gabi sa umaga naman linis ka tulog alaga mo sa hapon papahinga ka dadating bisita sa gabi matutulog ka na gising naman alaga naten haissttt
Pinagbabayad ang mga employer na yan at never na uli cla makakuha ng permit to hire foriegn worker again..
Yes must be fair dapat kc tyo ung mas kawawa.
Minsan mga broker din my kasalanan khit alam nila ang law, inuunahan oh sabihin ang employees na walang phone walang they off.bakit ganun? Nakalagay malinaw na may pahinga ang employees maid, catetaker. Pero hindi yun sinusunod ng iba. Nakakaawa ang mga caretaker kc kadalasan katabi ang alaga pa tapos wala tulog tapos work pa sa bahay , tapos pinagdadamot pa ang day off. Sana nman unawain din ng broker ang sitwasyon ng tauhan nila. D ko nilalahat ang mga broker. Pede naman na broker ang kumausap sa employer para tauhan nya. Minsan unfair din cla . Express ko lang po ung feeling ko. Sana po huwag o walang magalit sa comment kong ito.kc sa totoo lang po naranasan ko po ung madalas na walang sapat na tulog. Sana bigyan pansin ito ng gov ng Taiwan at kming mga Caretaker eh taasan din ng sahod.
they must increase caretaker salary,,because our job is 24hrs sometimes,,because we takecare our patients during night too,,so better be fair enough,,LABOR GROUP IN TAIWan,kasi di lahat ng caretaker ok ang pagkain,,minsan pagkain iniinit lang din sa gabi
Shame on people who exploit the disadvantaged. Disgusting
In hongkong hindi nila pwede gawin yang ganyan dhl maghihimas talaga sila ng rehas sa kulungan yan ang pinag kaiba ng taiwan at hongkong????????????????????
That’s a lie, they were not allowed to use mobile phones, even the manpower agency cannot contact them directly because the Ho family doesn’t allow it. The 2 filipino worker has to pass thru a certain HR personnel before their problem can reach the manpower agency. Resident permits and resident visa wasn’t confiscated by the employment agency, that’s a Big Big Lie ! And that’s a Fact