“Except for maids and the jobs that Taiwanese do not want to take, we will tighten the quotas for jobs that can be taken by Taiwanese,” the paper quoted him as saying.
For example, currently 20 percent 25 percent of the workers at a construction firm can be foreigners. In future, this quota could be cut to 15 percent, he said.
However, if Taiwan tightens the quota for foreign workers, it would have to subsidize companies because local workers are paid more than foreign workers, he said.
Taiwan has hired more than 300,000 foreign workers, with most of them coming from the Philippines and Thailand.
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