Taiwan News
Date: 2017/04/13
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Taiwan’s Ministry of Labor (MOL) has announced that work
Taiwan’s Ministry of Labor has announced spouses of foreign white-collar workers will be allowed to do short-term work. (photo from Wikipedia)
restrictions placed on spouses of foreign white-collar workers will be relaxed to allow them to do short-term work.
Considering that when foreign professionals come to Taiwan to work, their accompanying spouses might have the need of finding short-term work under special circumstances, therefore the accompanying spouses will be allowed to take short-term jobs, the MOL said.
They can be paid hourly wages, but the pay rate must be based on the standard salary of NT$47,971 (about US$1,600), which is about NT$200 per hour, the ministry said.
In addition, employers will not be subject to the restrictions of having a capital of NT$5 million and revenues of NT$10 million, the MOL said.
However, the working time of spouses of foreign professionals in Taiwan cannot exceed that of their white-collar spouses, the ministry added. [SOURCE]
