Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/23
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) The Ministry of Labor’s (MOL) decision to start proactively checking and verifying the results of health check ups undertaken by potential migrant workers, that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2017, has improved the time taken to approve employment applications by those individuals by an average of nearly two days.

Previously, employers looking to hire migrant workers were required to submit the results of potential employees’ health check ups to be reviewed by the ministry together with the rest of the employment application, a process that took an average of 7.31 days.

According to the MOL Workforce Development Agency, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s decision to create a joint platform to store the results of health check ups undertaken by foreign nationals applying to work as migrant workers in Taiwan has reduced average application approval time to 5.55 days.    [FULL  STORY]