Over an eight month period, Taiwan was the second largest employer of Vietnamese migrant workers after Japan opened up its labor market

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/01
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – In the first eight months of the year, there were 91,663 overseas Vietnamese workers, with 36,825 (40.17 percent) taking a job in Taiwan, according to a CNA report on Tuesday (Oct. 1).

The CNA report was based on Vietnam government statistics. Of the 91,663 Vietnamese migrant workers, 30,734 were female.

Taiwan is the second largest employer of Vietnamese overseas workers behind Japan, which hired 45,622 Vietnamese during the same eight-month period. Also, in August, Vietnam sent out 11,699 overseas workers, 6,080 of whom went to Japan, with 4,566 going to Taiwan, the report added.

Vietnam’s labor authority plans to send a total of 120,000 migrant workers to foreign countries this year. So far, the figure stands at 76.38 percent of the total.    [FULL  STORY]