Article 5 Measures to Safeguard Various Rights migrant domestic workers from exploitation and abuse, these improvements fall short of ensuring the equal treatment of migrant domestic workers and local domestic workers. The Committee recommends that the government incorporate ILO Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers into domestic law and take immediate steps to reduce the pay gap between local and migrant workers in order to protect the fundamental rights of domestic workers. 84. Recommendation: The NHRC believes that, while in recent years the government has gradually improved the working conditions of migrant domestic workers by expanding respite care services, providing short-term care services to increase leave days, and adjusting the minimum monthly wage to NT$ 20,000 in August 2022, significant differences between local workers and migrant domestic workers remain.107 The MOL should communicate with the public and propose concrete measures to close the gap. 85. The Road to Migrant Fishers’ Rights, published by NRHC, indicates that since August 1, 1984, the Labor Standards Act has been applicable to all domestically hired fishers, regardless of nationality. Nevertheless, the Labor Standards Act does not apply to fishers on fishing vessels in distant water fisheries who were employed overseas. Rather, they are governed by the Regulations on the Authorization and Management of Overseas Employment of Foreign Crew 107 According to the reply of the Ministry of Labor dated January 13, 2023, the labor shortage during the pandemic led to many disputes regarding requests for job transfers and salary adjustments. The Ministry of Labor approved a resolution in the Employment Security Fund, which, while accounting for the economic burden of employers, raised the monthly salary of foreign domestic workers from NT$17,000 to a more equitable NT$20,000 on August 10, 2022. In addition, employers who implemented salary adjustments were provided with salary subsidies. The goal of this measure was to promote harmonious labor relations, improve the overall management of foreign domestic workers, and ensure a stable source of foreign domestic workers. Moreover, Taiwan’s minimum wage regulations have been made applicable to industrial migrant workers. Starting from January 1, 2023, the minimum monthly wage was adjusted to NT$ 26,400, and the hourly minimum wage was adjusted to NT$ 176. According to the reply from the Ministry of Labor dated February 24, 2023, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health and Welfare have jointly implemented a Short-term Replacement Care Service Plan for foreign domestic workers. When a migrant domestic worker is on leave, expanded respite care and short-term care services can be provided through the program. Together, the services offer a combined total of a year and 52 days of care. This measure aims to ensure that foreign domestic workers are entitled to one rest day per week. 61