The Ministry of Labor on Tuesday said it hopes to hold a second working group-level meeting with India by the end of next month to discuss specifics of a plan to recruit Indian migrant workers.
The two countries signed a memorandum of understanding in February last year that established a mutual willingness to allow Indian migrant workers to work in Taiwan.
However, much of the details of the initiative, such as procedures and regulations, have yet to be settled.
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The two sides held their first meeting on Nov. 8 last year and set a cap of 1,000 Indian workers in Taiwan for the early stages of the initiative.
They agreed the workers would be prioritized for traditional manufacturing, and that 5 percent of the quota would be recruited through direct hiring.
Chuang Kuo-liang (莊國良), deputy head of the Workforce Development Agency’s (WDA) Cross-Border Workforce Management Division, said that the second meeting is likely to take place by the end of next month, but that the relevant agencies in India have not confirmed the date.
The second meeting would discuss details of the agreements reached during the previous meeting and would include an introduction to the direct hiring system used in both countries, Chuang said.
The WDA would ask India’s Protector General of Emigrants questions about the eMigrate 2.0 portal through which cases of Indian workers recruited by the direct hiring scheme would be processed, Chuang said.
Taiwan’s direct hiring of migrant workers is overseen by the Direct Hiring Service Center under the WDA.
Direct hiring plans are customizable and initiated by employers in select sectors, including domestic care, long-term care, manufacturing, distant-water fishing and construction. The scheme applies to workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, the center said.
The majority of job openings for blue-collar migrant workers in Taiwan are controlled by brokers.
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