EDITORIAL: Protecting local industry is crucial
As the COVID-19 situation worsens and some companies report clusters of infected employees, the Central Epidemic Command Center on Saturday instructed firms not to rotate foreign workers between plants as long as the level 3 pandemic alert stands, and the Ministry of Labor has prohibited labor brokers from unnecessarily changing workers’ employers or workplaces. Since early last week, two chip testing and packaging companies — King Yuan Electronics and GreaTek Electronics — have reported an increasing number of COVID-19 cases at their manufacturing sites in Miaoli County’s Jhunan Distr...