As of February this year, in TaiwanMigrant workersThe number of migrant workers is 756,831, and the total number of missing migrant workers has reached 85,229. The number of missing migrant workers has soared in recent years, which has not only attracted the attention and investigation of the Supervisory Council, but Ko Wenzhe, chairman of the People’s Party, even said that missing migrant workers have caused national security problems.Ministry of LaborMayor Xu Mingchun went to the Social Welfare and Sanitation Committee of the Legislative Yuan today to give a business report related to the Employment Service Law. In it, she mentioned that in order to strengthen deterrence and severely punish illegal employment, the Ministry of Labor plans to amend the law to increase fines.
According to the current employment law, illegal employers who hire missing migrant workers will be fined NT$150,000 to NT$750,000, and illegal media outlets will be fined NT$100,000 to NT$500,000. Those who intend to make illegal media for profit will be fined NT$150,000 to NT$750,000. The offender will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years, criminal detention, or a fine of not more than 1.2 million yuan.
Minister of Labor Hsu Ming-chun went to the Legislative Yuan Committee on Social Welfare and Health and Environmental Protection today to conduct a project report on “The Employment Service Law has been in place for more than 30 years and will conduct a comprehensive review on employment promotion, prohibition of discrimination, and protection of the rights and interests of foreign workers.”
Regarding the focus of future law revision, Xu Mingchun said that in order to strengthen deterrence and severely punish illegal accommodation, employment, and illegal mediaforeignerRegarding work and other behaviors, the Ministry of Labor has drafted a draft amendment to some provisions of the law. In the future, for illegal employment and illegal media, the current penalty will be increased from the current case-by-case basis to the per-person calculation, and the illegal media fine will be increased by 3 times. From the current fine of NT$100,000 to NT$500,000 per case, the fine will be increased from NT$300,000 to NT$1.5 million per person based on illegal media, and the relevant criminal liabilities will be aggravated.
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