Focus Taiwan
Date: 12/15/2020
By: Wu Hsin-yun and Joseph Yeh
In addition to the fine, employers could also be banned from hiring migrant workers for two years, said Paul Su (蘇裕國), deputy director of the MOL's Cross-Border Workforce Management Division.
Su made the comments while explaining the MOL's proposed draft amendment to the Regulations on the Permission and Administration of the Employment of Foreign Workers that will hold employers of migrant workers responsible for providing proper accommodation for their foreign employees.
The MOL amendment has been proposed amid controversy over an overcrowded dormitory in which two migrant workers stayed and later tested positive for COVID-19.
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