Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-04
By: CNA
Workers from the Philippines will be able to travel to Taiwan for work in two or three
Filipino migrant workers during a religious festival in Taipei, May 25, 2014. (File photo/Fang Chun-che)
weeks at the earliest after Taiwan and the Philippines signed cooperation guidelines Monday on worker recruitment, management and service.
The agreement was reached at the sixth ministerial conference between labor ministers of the two countries in Taipei.
The Philippines agreed to provide information on quality workers, while Taiwan for its part agreed to help good employers hire Filipino workers.
The two sides will streamline the application procedures for direct hiring and will help employers directly hire Filipino workers without having to go through brokers. [FULL STORY]
