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Migrant workers in Taiwan want legal protection as Mother s Day gift 05/02/2021 07:34 PM To activate the text-to-speech service, please first agree to the privacy policy below. Domestic workers on Sunday with signs reading low pay and household service law. CNA photo May 2, 2021 Taipei, May 2 (CNA) More than 100 migrant domestic workers staged a rally in Taipei on Sunday, calling for better protection of their rights and welfare, ahead of Mother s Day. The workers, many of them mothers from the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, said legal protection is what they would like as a gift for Mother s Day, which falls on May 9. We are not robots, We need rest, Household work is work and deserves legal protections, they chanted at the rally in front of the Cabinet building. ....
Migrant workers call for legal protections in Women s Day rally 03/08/2021 06:38 PM CNA photo March 8, 2021 Taipei, March 8 (CNA) Migrant domestic workers in Taiwan, supported by representatives from labor rights groups, rallied in front of the Legislative Yuan on Women s Day to ask for legal protections of their rights and welfare. About 100 demonstrators, mostly caregivers from the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, chanted slogans asking for support for migrant domestic workers, who are generally women. They also held placards with their appeals written in different languages. Marisa Garcia, a Filipino domestic worker who was hit by a motorcycle in June 2020, joined the rally in a wheelchair. ....
Migrant workers in Taiwan rally for better pay, more time off 12/13/2020 07:58 PM Migrant workers hold a banner reading Legal protection for domestic workers . CNA photo Dec. 13, 2020 Taipei, Dec. 13 (CNA) Migrant domestic workers took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday, calling for better legal protections, such as inclusion in Taiwan s minimum wage regulations and two days off per week. At the rally held ahead of International Migrants Day on Dec. 18, the 100-plus workers from the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan, along with representatives of labor rights groups, holding placards and banners. We want legal protection, one placard read, while another stated We are not slaves. ....
Migrant workers, rights groups protest in Taipei LEGISLATIVE PROTECTION: A ‘household service act’ is needed to protect foreign domestic workers, who are not currently covered by the Labor Standards Act By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter About 200 migrant workers and workers’ rights advocates yesterday rallied in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei to push for legislation to guarantee legal protection for domestic workers. At the heart of the protesters’ demands is a proposed “household service act” that the Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT) a coalition of grassroots migrants’ rights organizations that organized the protest has been pushing for since 2003. ....