A large monthly salary gap between foreign care workers and factory workers

A large monthly salary gap between foreign care workers and factory workers

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The epidemic has impacted the import of migrant workers in my country, especially long-term labor.  Moreover, after social welfare migrant workers who take care of the elderly or the seriously ill come to Taiwan, they want to transfer to higher-paying industrial migrant workers.  The labor group stated that there is a big gap between the monthly salary of nursing workers and the monthly salary of factory workers, and called for improving working conditions.

 Ms. Lin, a housework migrant employer, said: "If he suddenly has no way to come to work, or if he suddenly leaves halfway, then this will put a lot of burden on our family's care."

 Ms. Lin said that the hired housework migrant worker suddenly asked for leave. After further questioning, it turned out that the agency called him to apply for an industrial migration and said that he could come with a friend.  Ms. Lin said that migrant workers as caregivers need to cultivate a tacit understanding with their families.  Under the influence of the epidemic, if you leave your job suddenly, not only will it be difficult to find a replacement, but if you are lucky enough to find a replacement, you will have to pay for quarantine and quarantine, which will increase a lot of pressure on care.

 Ms. Lin, a housework migrant employer, said: "Then because of the current epidemic, he has to be 2 plus 1, 3 weeks of quarantine, and must go to find someone temporarily, and I am afraid that in this case, we can only find Taiwan.  That’s how the nursing care of Taiwan is. In this part, the nursing staff in Taiwan are indeed very inadequate.”

 According to statistics from the Ministry of Labor, there are about 710,000 domestic and foreign migrant workers, of which 460,000 are industrial migrants. The labor law applies and the basic salary is NT$24,000.  However, most of the 250,000 migrant workers in social welfare are family caregivers, and the labor law does not apply, and the basic salary is NT$17,000.

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 Intermediary groups bluntly stated that the high remuneration for industrial migrant workers has led to situations where social welfare migrant workers want to change jobs, and even used this to ask employers for a salary increase, which has caused many disputes.

 Huang Gaojie, chairman of the National Federation of Employment Service Business Associations of the Republic of China, said, "Then you don’t do it if you don’t do it now. Whom his patients will call for the treatment and who will be called to take care of him. In the case of the epidemic, factory workers will also enter.  No, it will end up with three loses or four loses. Everyone loses."

 Xue Jianzhong, head of the Transnational Labor Force Management Group of the Labor Development Agency of the Ministry of Labor, responded, "So in this part, we still hope that employers can coordinate between labor and employment. Of course, when they encounter them now, he will try his best to ask you to agree.  Can labor and management negotiate."

 According to the Ministry of Labor, fewer than 300 foreign care workers were transferred to factories last year, but 247 were transferred in January this year.  In the future, it will be discussed whether to increase salary subsidies and increase the willingness to work.  The labor group emphasized that the government should indeed improve the working conditions of foreign care workers in order to curb the chaos.