Taiwan’s hotel industry does not discriminate against women and elderly workers, but there are simply not enough of them interested in working in the industry, the Tourism Administration said yesterday.
The agency has proposed recruiting migrant workers to address a labor shortage in the hotel industry, particularly among housekeeping personnel.
Minister of Labor Hsu Ming-chun (許銘春) last month said that hotels should first consider hiring Taiwanese women, or middle-aged or elderly people for housekeeping jobs, adding that employers need to change their mindsets and give domestic workers a chance.
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“We are prepared to meet with labor officials, and would reasonably communicate the need to recruit migrant workers and address the minister’s concerns,” Tourism Administration Director-General Chou Yung-hui (周永暉) told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee.
The hotel industry would be delighted to hire domestic workers, regardless of their age and sex, Chou said.
However, while there are many jobseekers, few want to work in hotels, he said.
Only 2,500 people were recruited through Ministry of Labor programs, he said.
“We will do everything we can to help hotels, but will also respect the ministry’s decisions,” he said, adding that salaries of foreign personnel should be determined after the ministry agrees to lift a ban on recruiting migrant workers in the service industry.
A survey conducted last year by the ministry showed that hoteliers failed to attract workers because salaries were too low.
Only about one-third of housekeeping job openings had monthly salaries that met the ministry’s guidelines of at least NT$30,000 per month for hotels in northern Taiwan and NT$28,000 elsewhere in the nation, the survey showed.
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