Taiwan Talk: Wages for foreign in-home caregivers (6/30-7/1/2014)
Listen Episode Description Recently the Ministry of Labor announced it was reviewing measures that would increase the salary for Taiwan’s more than 200,000 foreign born domestic workers and caregivers to the minimum wage and mandate they be given 8 hours of continuous rest every day. To help us understand the proposals and what they could...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Forward Taiwan on Immigration (6/9-10/2014)
Listen Episode Description For many in Taiwan the prospect of increased immigration raises concerns of job loss for local workers. But there’s a flip side to that story as well and on this episode of Taiwan Talk we’ll be speaking to Forward Taiwan, an advocacy group that points out that foreign professionals also offer a...Continue reading
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