Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/16/2020
By: Pan Tzu-yu and Frances Huang

Taipei, June 16 (CNA) The National Development Council (NDC) said Tuesday it is considering removing the two-year work experience threshold for new foreign university graduates who want to work in the country.

NDC deputy head Kao Shien-quey (高仙桂) said the council, the top economic planning body in Taiwan, is mulling an amendment to current regulations governing the recruitment and employment of foreign professionals in Taiwan to remove the work experience requirement in a bid to encourage more foreign talent to work in the country.

The threshold has long been criticized because it is not easy for new university graduates to have two years of work experience, so foreign nationals who just received a bachelor's degree are effectively ineligible to apply for a job in Taiwan.

After the law amendment, Kao said, young foreign talent who graduate from overseas universities, such as an Ivy League schools in the United States, would no longer be unable to work in Taiwan.    [FULL  STORY]