Hear That Tiny Scream - The Problem of Escaped Migrant Workers in Taiwan

Due to the aging population and insufficient fertility in Taiwan, there is a shortage of labor force. Therefore, many companies hire migrant workers. Currently, migrant workers in Taiwan come from Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These migrant workers have also become part of our society. Some places are like Southeast Asia. If you live in Taichung, there is a first square in Taichung, which is now changed to ASEAN Square. After passing there, it seems like you are in Southeast Asia. It is a place with a strong sense of exoticism.

There must be an intermediary procedure before migrant workers can come to work in Taiwan. However, migrant workers who come to work in Taiwan can only work in a fixed company. For example, the company that proposes to hire migrant workers is Company A. If you work in Company A, if you run away from the company without permission, you will be regarded as an escaped migrant worker, and when an escaped migrant worker is caught, they will be sent back to your own country.

Migrant workers who come to work in Taiwan, if the working time expires, can change their company to work, and the agency must also run the process.

I briefly introduced the background of migrant workers in Taiwan, and now we get to the topic, the issue of escaping migrant workers in Taiwan.

I will pay attention to this issue mainly because the company I work for has escaped a total of 4 migrant workers in the past two months. , Indonesian, and Vietnamese migrant workers, all of whom happened to escape were migrant workers from Vietnam, which made me wonder if there was a group behind all of this, which would make these migrant workers flee one by one, listening to the agency company It is said that there are more than 50,000 escaped migrant workers in Taiwan.

Why are there so many escaped migrant workers?

I think, on the one hand, it is because the government does not really pay attention to this issue and does not seriously catch escaped foreign workers, and on the other hand, it is probably because the salaries in the construction industry are more attractive.

There is a serious shortage of workers in the construction industry in Taiwan. In addition, due to the epidemic, migrant workers are not allowed to enter Taiwan. There was news a while ago that the salary in the construction industry was about 40,000 to 50,000 a month, but there was still no willingness to work on construction sites. It seems that some people use this to attract migrant workers who want to make more money, and there are legal loopholes in the construction industry, because legal loopholes can make escaping migrant workers not afraid of being discovered. If an ordinary company hires a migrant worker, it will be directly heavily punished.

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In this news, there was a livestock company at the time of the outbreak in Taiwan, and it was still a government unit. As soon as they heard that vaccines needed to be registered, a bunch of illegal migrant workers, that is, escaped migrant workers, fled because of this.

What does this mean? Could it be that there are illegal migrant workers working on government sites, and the government will not know about it?

Does this mean that the government is turning a blind eye? Allow illegal migrant workers?

I really hope that the government can take this issue seriously and strictly enforce the arrest of escaping foreign workers. Otherwise, it is not fair to entrepreneurs. The company needs to pay another agency to hire migrant workers. The employees hired by themselves do not want to If you want to work in the original company, and let other units do not have to pay another agency to hire these migrant workers in an illegal way, is the company that takes the proper route a fool?

Besides, due to the current epidemic situation, legal migrant workers are easy to manage. Once confirmed cases are found, they can be managed in the usual way, but what about escaping foreign workers? How to manage, just being afraid of being caught is enough, if you have a diagnosis, if you come out for a screening or see a doctor, won’t it mean that you will be thrown into the net?

I really don't understand what the government is doing?

I really hope the government can take this issue seriously!