The China Post
Date: September 16, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A lawmaker on Thursday proposed a lifelong ban from hiring migrant workers on persons convicted of sexual assault against their foreign employees.

The mooted amendment to the Employment Service Act comes after the arrest of a local man for alleged rape of an Indonesian caregiver.

Under current regulations, employers convicted of abusing workers are permitted to hire new foreign caregivers after two years.

News that an Indonesian caregiver in Taichung had been raped and found with her wrists cut in an apparent suicide attempt sparked outrage earlier this month.

The event shed light on a string of similar sexual assault cases involving foreign workers in Taiwan.

A total of 122 foreign workers — over 90 of whom were registered as caregivers — reported they had been assaulted by employers, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW, 衛服部).     [FULL  STORY]