Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/22
By: Huang Kuo-fang and Lilian Wu

Taipei, July 22 (CNA) The National Immigration Agency (NIA) has turned over a Taiwanese woman to the Pingtung District Prosecutors Office for the alleged abuse of a Vietnamese worker.

Agency officials stationed in Chiayi said Friday that during a check on tea farm workers in Shihjhuo District in Chiayi in April, they found the Vietnamese worker in hiding and then listened to her story.

According to the worker, whose name was not given, she came to Taiwan to work at a nursing center in Pingtung County in July 2013 to serve as a caregiver.

She was assigned a graveyard shift and made responsible for taking care of more than 30 senior citizens singlehandedly.     [FULL  STORY]