The crisis of nursing shortage is still ongoing and the basic salary
Crisis of job shortage, foreign nurses' monthly salary is 25,000! Employers: If you want to have money, you can't hire them March 23, 2022 · In November last year, the command center reopened the entry gate for migrant workers. At the beginning of this month, the entry quarantine period was also relaxed, shortening it to 10 days. However, the crisis of nursing shortage is still ongoing. According to statistics from the Ministry of Labor, after four months, although 1,053 social welfare migrant workers came to Taiwan, there is still an imbalance between supply and demand in the market. The price of caregivers has increased from 17,000 yuan a month to 25,000 yuan, an increase of 30%, and even if you have money, you may not be able to hire caregivers.
The aging of Taiwan's population is a fact that "can't go back". The elderly and disabled have to rely on foreign caregivers to take care of them for many years. However, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has affected the world, and the introduction of migrant workers has almost stopped. In particular, many foreign caregivers are lured by high salaries. "Runaway" became a black worker, and the caregivers who were left behind also raised their prices on the ground, and chaos spread frequently. Ah Hao (pseudonym), who has been a labor agency for 12 years, said, "In the labor market now, the only way to transfer people is to 'raise money', otherwise it will be impossible!" Now Taiwan is affected by the epidemic and lacks work, once new manpower is available Items, as long as the conditions are "not too outrageous", will almost be hired within an hour. "I told my employer not to think about it, because there are still many people lining up! Southern employers will hesitate to see the salary of migrant workers 23,000 yuan. , and the employers in the north directly offer 28,000 yuan to go to work the next day, so of course migrant workers are vying to drift north.”
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Share the salary slip of a migrant worker from January 21 to February 28. It can be seen that the fixed salary is about 25,000 yuan, but after adding overtime pay, the salary becomes 66,336 yuan, deducting agency, accommodation and taxes. The figure is 59899 yuan. Although the high salary is enviable, the migrant worker worked 134 hours of overtime on weekdays and 15 more overtime on vacation days. The original PO exclaimed, "The salary of the migrant worker is really fierce. I can't help this physical fitness." . As soon as the post came out, many netizens felt distressed for migrant workers, "the salary is scary, and the overtime hours are also scary", "I used to work as a staff restaurant in a technology factory for 2 years, and more than 90% of those foreign workers are the minimum wage under the labor standard. Almost every foreign worker works 12 hours a day! Only one day off a week on Sunday! Because the 8th to 12th hours of overtime work is 1.3 times the base salary, and overtime on holidays is 1.6 times the base salary. The entry of 50,000 to 60,000 is in exchange for time, life, and health. Taiwanese are unwilling to do it and have no physical strength to do it. Fortunately, Taiwan has imported foreign workers, otherwise who will support the technology factory.”
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In 2022, the basic salary will be increased, and about 470,000 foreign migrant workers will be subject to the Labor Standards Law, and the salary will also be increased from the current 24,000 yuan to 25,250 yuan. However, because the labor standard law does not apply to family migrant workers, the monthly salary is still only 17,000 yuan. Next year, the salary gap between migrant workers and factory migrant workers will widen, and the difference will be 8,250 yuan.
Wu Jingru, a researcher at the International Labor Association in Taiwan, said: "The gap between the basic salary and the salary of domestic migrant workers will be a record high. The Ministry of Labor first passed a law to prevent them from switching (inter-bank), and now the basic salary will not be increased accordingly. We feel very outraged that they are locked in their homes like slave labor.”
On the eve of the review of the basic wage, migrant workers' groups have been calling for family migrant workers to be included in the protection of the minimum basic wage. On the 8th, Minister of Labor Xu Mingchun responded that most of the employers who hire foreign caregivers are from disadvantaged families, so it is difficult to ask Taiwanese employers to pay salaries according to the basic salary.
Minister of Labor Xu Mingchun responded, "I think the issue of whether or not the basic wage should be applied to domestic migrant workers has been discussed. However, I would like to clarify that most of the domestic migrant workers or domestic workers employed are families, and many of them are disadvantaged. family, so he is not like ordinary enterprises and institutions, he has production capacity.”
Wu Jingru, a researcher at the International Labor Association in Taiwan, questioned, "The government will subsidize companies affected by the epidemic. What about these vulnerable families who hire migrant workers, why can't the government subsidize them?"
The epidemic has stabilized, and many catering operators have recently posted recruitment posters in their stores. The basic salary will increase next year, and the government has also announced that it will offer subsidy packages to businesses severely hit by the epidemic. Migrant workers' groups are calling on the government to subsidize vulnerable families to hire migrant workers at basic wages.
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