Taiwanese businesses have been warned to run proper background checks before putting on extra workers over the Chinese New Year holiday period, after immigration officials found that one employer had hired an absconded migrant.
Wang Hsin-Chi, the Director of Tainan City Government’s Labor Affairs Bureau, said it was the responsibility of employers to ensure they hired registered workers. He added that it was also an offence to borrow legal migrant workers from other businesses on a part-time basis.
Taiwan Times reported that the director of a cooperative in Tainan, with the surname of Lee, was facing a hefty fine after hiring a worker for the holiday period without bothering to check his background. A close friend had recommended the foreign worker to Lee.
A special unit from the National Immigration Agency made a surprise visit to Lee’s business and found that the employee was a runaway migrant worker with no valid permit to work in Taiwan.
The director was found guilty of violating Section 1 of Article 1 of the Employment Services Act, and is liable for a fine of NT$150,000 (US$5,141) to NT$750,000 (US$25, 707). The worker’s referee is facing a fine of NT$100,000 (US$3,427) to NT$500,000 (US$17,136).
All employers knew that. They just pretending not to know the background of the migrant worker. That is the most common doing here in Taiwan.even the migrant worker is legal ,some employers used their old parents just to have a worker in their company or to their house.sometimes their worker will passed through their siblings to work there.one month to his/her brother then after one month ,the worker will go back to the real employer.the migrant worker job here are so tough especially the caretakers. Why they don’t look how’s the job of caretakers.as far as I know,caretaker’s job is to Take care old people not to clean the entire house and not to serve the entire family of the ward.that’s why many migrant workers are run away because of not right treated to the caretakers.
Cracks down sa manga tnt.
Di nyo ba naisip na ibang bansa ito.kasalukuyan kaya yan nakakaisip na gumawa ng ganyan kasi di sila kontinto sa kong anong miron sila.pano na ngayon pamilya nyo sa pinas?
Nakahihiya kayo mabulok sana Kaayo SA kulungan…