Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/24
By: Christie Chen

Taipei, Oct. 24 (CNA) A group of protesters demonstrated in front of the Executive

CNA file photo

Yuan Tuesday, urging the government to protect the right of migrant workers to change employers and to revise regulations that they say punish migrant workers for their employers’ faults.

Tien Kei-fung (田奇峯), a member of the Serve the People Association, which organized the protest, said his association has handled cases over the years in which migrant workers have been unable to extend their stay in Taiwan to look for work due to false information provided by their former employers.

Some employers, when they want to suspend a contract with a migrant worker for no good reason, will falsely write “business contraction” as a reason on the official form that needs to be filled out so that migrant workers can change employers, he said.
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