Discrimination During COVID-19 receive short-term care, as well as impacts on the protection of undocumented migrant workers’ health rights and even a sudden increase in the number of undocumented migrant workers in Taiwan, as explained below: 7. The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced a nationwide level-3 alert to prevent non-essential outings and impose restrictions on group gatherings following cluster infections in migrant workers’ dormitories during COVID-19. Some local governments issued county-wide restrictions that prohibited migrant workers from leaving their dormitories except to go to and from work. The NHRC notes that migrant workers were not the only ones in the workplace to be infected with COVID, but the ban did not apply to domestic employees or the general public, resulting in discriminatory treatment. An investigation report forwarded by the Control Yuan to the Commission also showed that: (1) The Miaoli County Government issued a stay-at-home order to all migrant workers, including those with no history of exposure to infectious disease, restricting their personal freedom and causing employers to follow suit, and forcing migrant workers to be grounded and sign pledges, to name a few of problematic measures. (2) During COVID-19, foreign worker employment guidelines in response to COVID-19 were introduced to prevent cluster infections and pandemic spread among migrant workers. As employers and agents were unable to respond to the situation in a timely manner, and preventive visits to dormitories were simply a formality, cluster infections were unavoidable in the group accommodations. Nevertheless, employers and agents prohibited migrant workers from going out and forced them to return to the dormitories for centralized management, while no restrictions were imposed on local employees working in the same factory, a practice which 9

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