professional field, while there has been no effective coordination and
integration across fields for more comprehensive policy and planning.
Consequently, government agencies have not been able to provide relevant
workforce demand information to students, parents, and the general public, and
so the educational system and specialized departments are not able to cultivate
talent matching with the anticipated developments in industrial demand. As a
result, uneven long term supply and demand for trained manpower, as well as
the gap between the industrial and academic sectors, still exist.
174. Regarding the gap between school learning and actual practice at work in the
job market, for departments and faculties showing poor employment
performance, the Ministry of Education (MOE) needs to supervise universities
and colleges to perform reviews of their programs and fields of study offerred,
and consider transformations to effectively overcome these gaps. Furthermore,
due to the insufficient occupational competency of some young people under
the current school educational system, young people tend to compete over job
vacancies requiring lower work skills, leading to the outcome of greater
unemployment rates and low wages. An industry-academia cooperation
program, a bridge between school learning and industrial needs, and a
complete mechanism for career development after graduation, also for nonindustry class students must be adopted by the MOE and continuously
reviewed to facilitate employment for students immediately after graduation.
This will also provide sufficient technical human resources to various
industries, thereby improving technological and vocational education.
Article 7
Protection of Contracted Workers’ Rights
175. By the second quarter of 2020, the number of contracted workers in the
Executive Yuan and its subsidiary organs of government has been decreased
to 204 people. In comparison with the 15,514 contracted workers employed
on January 31, 2010, the number has been reduced by 98%. Nevertheless, an
investigation by the Control Yuan has discovered labor irregularities in a
government-funded foundation. The Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation
is a foundation entirely supported by donations from the Council of Indigenous
Peoples, and on January 1, 2014, it founded Taiwan Indigenous Television,
with a 100% governmental budget. However, since 2014, the foundation began
to increase the number of labor contract employees, and their number reached
71 at the end of June 2018, accounting for approximately 30% of the total
number of 250 employees. 80% of these labor contract employees are
indigenous peoples. Furthermore, the actual annual salary of the labor contract
employees has been NT$120,000 (USD 4,000) less than the annual salary of
direct full-time employees; in addition, contract employees are not accorded
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