Minimum wage to be adjusted to NT$25,250 per month and NT$168 per hour starting January 1, 2022
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Taiwan OSHA co-host the 1st Taiwan-UK Occupational Safety and Health Summit with UK HSE, and signed the cooperation confirmation to further deepen the bilateral partnership.
Highlights of the Ministry of Labor
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2022-06-27
Amended and promulgated the "Common Principle of Calculation of Fines for Violations of Labor Standards Act", Point 4, which took effect on August 1, 2022.
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2022-06-24
The Workforce Development Agency (WDA), MOL organized the "Women’s Economic Empowering, New Media Digital Upskilling (WEDU) Seminar" through video conference. WDA Director-General Tsai Meng-Liang, APEC Human Resources Development Working Group (HRDWG) Lead Shepherd Prof. Dong Sun Park, APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy (PPWE) Chair Renee Graham, and APEC HRDWG Capacity Building Network (CBN) Coordinator Rosanna Urdaneta delivered opening remarks. Dialogues between representatives of APEC economies and experts from the industry, government, academia, and research analyzed cross-disciplinary trends of integrating gender awareness into digital marketing and officially launched the preparatory work for the "Training Package of Gender Power in Online Marketing" in August. The MOL also strove to consolidate the resources of domestic and foreign public and private partners to jointly guide trainees to pass the "iCAP Certificate for Competency-Based Training Program" assessment indicators and obtain the "International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL)" online certification for digital marketing.
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2022-06-17
In response to the Central Bank's interest rates hike by 12.5 basis points, the interest rate of the "Worker Relief Loan" was raised from 1.845% to 1.97%. In order to take care of economically disadvantaged workers, the MOL fully subsidized the corresponding increase in interest rates for mortgages.
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2022-06-16
To enhance the labor safety measures of delivery workers and protect their rights and interests in occupational accidents, the "Guidelines on Safety and Health of Food Delivery Operations" (i.e. Version 4.0) was amended and announced. In addition to strengthening the reasonable dispatch mechanism, expanding the scope of "third party liability insurance", a new item of "hazard notification" was added. The third party liability insurance, which requires a certain period of time before insurance providers can obtain approval for the listing of insurance products, will be fully enforced after a grace period until November 1, 2022.
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2022-06-15
In conjunction with the implementation of the "Labor Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection Act", the "Employment Security Program" and the "Immediate Employment and Security Program" were amended and promulgated. In addition, the "Employment Security Program" was extended in conjunction with the implementation of the "Special Act for Prevention, Relief and Revitalization Measures for Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens", and the period of employment referrals was amended to June 30, 2023.