Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/10/12
By: Wang Cheng-chung and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Oct. 12 (CNA) Taiwan will raise the issue of migrant workers who fall ill and become too
Chen Shei-saint (right second)
sick to fly home during bilateral meetings with countries that provide most of the nation’s foreign laborers a senior Ministry of Labor (MOL) official said on Wednesday.
The ministry will propose the establishment of a mechanism to assist such migrants, said Hou Song-ting (侯松廷), a senior inspector at the MOL’s Workforce Development Agency, at a press conference held by Kuomintang Legislator Chen Shei-saint (陳學聖) at the Legislative Yuan.
Hou was responding to Chen’s appeal for such a mechanism, which the lawmaker said is necessary to prevent seriously ill foreign workers in Taiwan from becoming an unwanted burden.
Chen brought up the case of an Indonesian care giver — known only as Sina — who he said came to Taiwan in March 2014 but fell ill eight months later and eventually became paralyzed due to a parenchymal lesion on her spine. [FULL STORY]
