The Ministry of Labor has agreed to allow the service industry to apply for migrant workers and explore ways to properly reintegrate runaway migrant workers into the workforce, General Chamber of Commerce (GCC) chairman Paul Hsu (許舒博) said today.
The chamber held a meeting with Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) and other Cabinet officials today, presenting 63 motions and actively discussing 18 of them due to time constraints.
The topics covered included labor shortages, achieving net-zero carbon goals and developing green talent.
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The ministry pledged to allow the service industry to conditionally apply for migrant workers, but the salaries of domestic workers must first be raised, Hsu said in an interview after the meeting.
They also discussed allowing the around 80,000 runaway migrant workers to return to formal employment rather than immediately deporting them, Hsu said.
Furthermore, they proposed extending the work eligibility of migrant workers who have been in Taiwan for over 10 years to longer than the current limit, he said.
These proposals would help Taiwan retain talent and prevent it from becoming a training ground for other countries, he added.
They also hope to encourage overseas Chinese and foreign students to settle down in Taiwan after graduating, he said.
The ministry pledged to present a complete set of policies addressing labor shortages after the Lunar New Year, Hsu said.
Aligning with current laws, the service industry would introduce migrant workers from Taiwan’s main migrant source countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand and India, he added.
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