The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) has decided to set up a warning indicator to control the number of foreign laborers and to establish a foreign labor databank for the reference of enterprises wishing to hire foreign workers.
The council reached the decision in its first meeting of its foreign labor policy advisory group recently.
CLA officials said that the current analysis model is oversimplified, has failed to cast light on several major aspects of the issue and therefore cannot be used as an indicator of the "reasonable" number of foreign laborers in the country.
They said that as the consensus of a national economic conference last year was to continue to restrict the number of foreign laborers, a "reasonable indicator" of the total number of foreign laborers needs to be implemented.
They said that the CLA is planning to take into consideration the number of jobless and the number of laborers needed to see if the ratio of foreign laborers has reached a critical level.
The calculation will use information gleaned in past years to predict the number of workers needed in the next year and the warning level will be adjusted by reviewing the situation of future labor demands.
The advisory group also decided to establish a foreign labor policy databank, mainly because the Control Yuan -- the nation's highest watchdog body -- has criticized the reference used by the CLA.
As foreign labor policy involves the source of workers, the sectors that are allowed to employ foreign laborers and the control of the total number, the council said it will be necessary for related agencies to provide information needed to establish the databank.
The advisory group also decided to meet once every month and to announce the calculation formula for setting its warning indicator.
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