Q: What is the Keeping Good Quality Migrant Workers for Long-Term Employment? Is there any legal reference?

Answer:

For solving the problem of labor shortage in the domestic industrial sector, and keeping migrant workers with technical skills after working in Taiwan for certain period of time, and the foreign and overseas Chinese students educated in the schools of higher education in Taiwan conferred with associate bachelor degree and higher , the Executive Yuan has approved the “Keeping foreign mid-level technical workers scheme” (hereinafter, “Keeping good quality migrant workers for long-term employment” program)  on February 17 2022 thereby employers may apply for qualified migrant workers and foreign and overseas Chinese students for employment of technical works pursuant to subparagraph 11 of paragraph 1 under Article 46 of the Employment  Service Act, that “due to the specific nature of work that no qualified personnel is available in the country, which make it necessary to employ foreigners for performing this type of work, and at the special approval of the central competent authority”, on condition that the right of employment and salary conditions of the local population remained unaffected.