Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/13
By: Yu Hsiao-han and William Yen
Taipei, July 13 (CNA) The Ministry of Labor (MOL) announced Friday that it
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plans to only accept online applications from employers to recruit, employ and transfer migrant workers starting in 2019 in a bid to go paper-free.
The exact date in 2019 when the move will be put in place has yet to be decided and will be determined in conjunction with relevant laws, the agency said.
Chiu Yueh-yun (邱月雲), the head of the MOL’s Workforce Development Agency Cross-Border Workforce Affairs Center, said in an interview that 89 percent of applications were already being done online as of May 2018.
With the online service already being used in such a high number of cases, it made sense to accept only online applications for permits to recruit, employ and transfer migrant workers starting next year, Chiu said.
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