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Taiwan abuses foreign workers ― a serious problem! The entry or reentry "international workers" are "foreign laborers", mostly
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★ justsecurity.org,
Focus Taiwan, Taipei Times, etc, 2022-5-13:
Invited by Taiwan's government, an international
human rights experts panel conducted a five-day review from May
9-13 in Taipei of the country's implementation of two United Nations'
human rights-related covenants, namely the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Taiwan’s failure thus far to incorporate the Convention on Migrant Workers or to adopt a domestic workers protection law is of additional concern given the vulnerability of these workers — many of them women who provide crucial long-term services to the elderly and disabled — to adverse, discriminatory measures related to the pandemic. Their precariousness is further underlined by their low pay, lack of union representation, and the subordination of their bargaining power to the interests of the governments of their home countries because of Taiwan’s reliance on a Philippines-style labor-export model.
Many of these workers are identifiable as observant Muslims because of their dress, and are of Southeast Asian (primarily Indonesian, Filipino, Malaysian, and Vietnamese) origin, which differentiates them from most of the population in Taiwan and could make them susceptible to forms of discrimination that are not regulated – hence the need to incorporate the convention’s terms into law. The committee also noted the need to bring migrant workers within the protections of Taiwan’s overall system of labor regulation and received multiple reports regarding limitations on migrant workers’ rights to change employment, to obtain permanent residency, and bars to the migration of family members, resulting in the induced separation of families. The committee also noted its concerns regarding widespread reports of abuses against the conditions of labor for fisheries workers. Many of these are also migrants.
★ The
Guardian, 2022-5-9:
Taiwan is now dealing with an “Omicron tsunami”.
In factories, migrant workers have once again been
discriminated against with unequal rule enforcement and eased restrictions
(theguardian.com/world/2022/may/09/once-a-zero-covid-poster-child-taiwan-learns-to-live-with-the-virus)
★ US Country Reports on Human
Rights Practices
released at 2022-4-12
(state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/taiwan/):
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TTV news (台視 新聞) ,
Taiwan, 2022-6-23
8:44am:
migrant workers policy comparison | ||
Taiwan | Japan | S. Korea |
monthly salary NT$ 17 thousands, after 6 years $24 thousands, 5 more years later, entitled to apply for permanent residency | salary NT$ 43 thousands, 2 days off per week | salary NT$ 36 thousands, plus welfare |
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