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Policy Objectives and Priorities of the Ministry of Labor for 2025

To realize the vision of dignified labor and friendly workplaces, the Ministry of Labor (MOL) continues to advance a “Labor-Friendly Governance” initiative, aimed at strengthening labor standards protections, fostering quality working environments, and safeguarding the rights of workers undergoing transitions. Efforts will be made to cultivate inclusive and equitable workplaces, promote corporate participation in childcare services, and encourage the creation of family-friendly work environments. The MOL is committed to ensuring the stability of the labor insurance and pension systems while steadily increasing the long-term returns of labor-related funds. It will also enhance the employment insurance system, improve the effectiveness of employment services, and proactively support workforce participation. Moreover, practical, diversified vocational training will be promoted in line with net-zero and digital transformation trends. Further initiatives include optimizing the management system for employing international labor, improving talent attraction and retention, fostering labor-management cooperation to maintain industrial harmony, and enhancing workplace disaster prevention to build a healthy and resilient workforce. Policies relating to occupational accident insurance and protection will be comprehensively improved. All strategies and action plans will be aligned and integrated under the guiding principles of “administrative streamlining” and “innovative action.” Through continuous optimization of policy measures and administrative procedures, the MOL aims to build a sustainable labor environment that meets the evolving demands and challenges of the labor market.

1. Continuously Enhancing Labor Standards Protection, Building a Quality Working Environment, and Safeguarding the Rights of Workers Amid Industrial Transitions
   • Implement and refine the minimum wage review mechanism to ensure workers' basic living standards.
   • Review current statutory working hour regulations to protect workers' physical and mental well-being.
   • Develop labor rights indicators for sustainability reports of publicly listed companies to encourage corporate respect for labor rights.
2. Enhancing the Creation of Friendly Workplaces, Advancing Workplace Equality, and Promoting Corporate Participation in Childcare Services and Family-Friendly Work Environments
   • Enhance employment equality legislation and reinforce advocacy for workplace equity.
   • Enforce workplace sexual harassment prevention systems.
   • Encourage enterprises to provide breastfeeding rooms and childcare facilities to create a parenting-friendly workplace.
   • Support and subsidize companies in implementing work-life balance measures and promote best practices for inclusive workplaces.
3. Ensuring the Stability of the Labor Insurance and Pension Systems and Steadily Increasing Long-Term Fund Returns
   • Continue allocating funds to the Labor Insurance Fund and review relevant systems and regulations to protect workers’ benefit entitlements.
   • Direct local authorities to conduct audits of the Labor Retirement Reserve Fund system and actively promote higher employer contribution rates and voluntary contributions by employees.
   • Oversee the execution of fund operations and ensure regulatory compliance by conducting on-site audits of fund income, expenditure, custody, and utilization activities to strengthen supervisory effectiveness.
   • Diversify industry allocations, monitor investment trends in financial markets, and refine diversified investment strategies to ensure long-term and stable fund returns.
4. Strengthening the Employment Insurance System, Enhancing Employment Services, and Actively Supporting Workforce Participation
   • Review employment insurance regulations to strengthen job promotion functions and improve coverage and benefit entitlements for workers.
   • Implement Phase II of the Youth Employment Investment Program, which aims to empower young people in their career development through inter-ministry and inter-agency collaborative efforts. The program aims to foster and guide young people to engage in key industries, build up professional skills, and secure stable employment opportunities.
   • Establish regular support measures to address labor shortages by offering employment incentives to actively develop the labor force. In collaboration with other ministries, the MOL will support industries in improving labor conditions and fostering friendly workplaces to attract and retain workers.
   • Enforce the Middle-aged and Elderly Employment Promotion Act and promote associated employment initiatives. By integrating inter-ministry and inter-agency resources, the MOL will assist unemployed middle-aged and senior individuals in re-entering the workforce, support those currently employed in maintaining their positions, and encourage retirees to rejoin the labor market.
   • Promote the Women’s Reemployment Program by utilizing incentives such as self-directed training subsidies, reemployment bonuses, and employer subsidies for adjusted working hours to support women in returning to the workforce.
   • Assist unemployed individuals in securing jobs while fostering social welfare and regional industrial development. The MOL will also support local revitalization by offering entrepreneurial consultation, guidance, and subsidized interest on startup loans to help micro-entrepreneurs establish their businesses.
5. Promoting Diversified, Practice-Oriented Vocational Training in Support of Net-Zero and Digital Transformation, and Enhancing the Effectiveness of Skills Certification Services
   • In response to the dual transformation of industries and the evolving needs of workers' career development, the MOL will strengthen public-private collaboration to implement diversified vocational training programs focused on net-zero and digital transformation, thereby reinforcing human capital and cultivating talent aligned with industry demands.
   • To keep pace with industrial development trends, the MOL will expand industry participation in skills certification, promote alignment between certification content and industry needs, and enhance the value of technician certification.
6. Optimizing the Management System for Employing International Labor and Effectively Attracting and Retaining Global Talent
   • In response to changing socioeconomic conditions, the MOL will expand the retention of foreign professionals and mid-level skilled workers by easing key regulatory restrictions related to international labor policies.
   • Promote the expansion of respite care and short-term substitute caregiver services to enhance leave entitlements for family caregivers.
   • Streamline the application process for hiring in-home caregivers, expand the scope of exemption from individual assessments, and alleviate the caregiving burden on families with dependents requiring assistance.
   • Improve online application services for employers hiring foreign workers, simplify the work permit application process, and enhance the effectiveness of direct-hire services to help employers retain high-quality international talent.
7. Promoting Labor-Management Cooperation and Ensuring Stable Labor Relations
   • Promote the establishment and effective operation of labor unions by encouraging supportive measures, while continuing to offer incentives and assistance for the signing of collective agreements. Strengthen labor-management consultation procedures during corporate mergers and acquisitions.
   • Ensure high-quality mediation and arbitration for labor disputes, optimize the adjudication mechanism for unfair labor practices, enhance the notification and negotiation process for mass layoffs, and expand the scope of legal aid available to workers.
   • Strengthen the foundation of labor education to deepen public awareness of labor rights and responsibilities.
8. Advancing Workplace Disaster Reduction, Enhancing Workforce Health, and Improving the Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection System
   • Continue promoting autonomous occupational safety and health management systems; expand workplace disaster prevention training and education; improve industry risk control capabilities; and encourage businesses to implement self-management practices.
   • Enhance disaster prevention strategies by improving source control of machinery and equipment and enhancing risk identification and assessment for hazardous chemicals. Strengthen occupational safety supervision and inspections, particularly for high-risk sectors such as construction.
   • Establish a tiered risk management and supervision system for hazardous substances, improve the capacity and quality of worker health services, and assist businesses in implementing comprehensive physical and mental health protection measures for employees.
   • Enforce the Labor Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection Act by strengthening systems for the diagnosis and treatment of occupational injuries and illnesses, and for the rehabilitation of affected workers. Implement comprehensive support measures to help workers return to the workforce as soon as possible.

• Source:Department of General Planning
• Publication Date:2022-03-28
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