Illegal broker fees

仲介代辦移工轉中階人才超收費用 勞動部：罰款最高20倍

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The intermediary agent handles the migration of workers to mid-level talents overcharged by the Ministry of Labor: the fine can be up to 20 times

Just over a month after the "Program for Immigrant Workers Retention and Long-term Employment" was launched, it was reported that some agents were aggressively demanding excessive agency fees from employers and migrant workers.

 【Taipei News from our newspaper】The “Program for Immigrant Workers Retention and Long-term Employment” has just been launched for more than a month. It is reported that some intermediary agencies have opened their mouths and demanded excessive intermediary fees from employers and migrant workers.  In this regard, officials from the Ministry of Labor emphasized that if the employer is applying for a mid-level talent for the immigrant worker who was already employed, the agency can only charge the employer half a month’s salary from the immigrant worker, and 10 cents for the immigrant worker.  No fee can be collected, and the illegal overcharge will be fined 10 times to 20 times the overcharged amount, and the business will be suspended for 3 months.

 In order to solve the problem of lack of workers, the Ministry of Labor has launched the "Immigrant Workers Retention Program for Long-term Employment" since April 30. As long as immigrant workers who have worked in Taiwan for more than 6 years and meet the salary and technical requirements, employers can apply for employment in mid-term  It is estimated that about 200,000 immigrant workers will meet their seniority requirements.

 After the plan was launched, many employers were willing to apply for mid-level technical talents for their migrant workers. However, some employers of family care workers reported that because the application process was too cumbersome, they had to ask an intermediary to handle the procedures on their behalf. However, the intermediary asked the migrant workers,  The employers charge 25,000 yuan each, which is equivalent to a one-time asking price of 50,000 yuan, which is extremely unreasonable.

 According to the charging items and amount standards established by the Ministry of Labor, the agency company can charge the employer an agency fee, but the amount cannot exceed one month’s salary of the migrant worker, and the service fee is 2,000 yuan per year;  The monthly limit for one year shall not exceed 1,800 yuan, the second year shall not exceed 1,700 yuan, and the monthly limit for more than three years shall not exceed 1,500 yuan.

 Xue Jianzhong, head of the International Labor Management Team of the Labor Development Agency, said that the monthly salary threshold for mid-level care workers must reach 24,000 yuan, but the agency must register and introduce actions before charging the employer agency fees.  The agency did not introduce the new immigrant workers when they were already employed. At best, they could only charge 50% of the registration fee, which is 12,000 yuan, or they could negotiate an additional agency fee.  It is not even a dime agency fee.

 Xue Jianzhong emphasized that if the agency overcharges, it will be fined 10 to 20 times the overcharged amount and ordered to suspend business for 3 months.

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移工轉技術人才 不得超收仲介費

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外籍移工仲介費出爐！「買工費」「咖啡錢」皆違法
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