Part II >
Our Efforts and Transformation
As the number of migrant workers increases,
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face also emerge gradually. This fact points at
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the difficulties that pregnant migrant workers
the incompleteness or inflexibility of the relevant
laws, regulations, and implementing mechanisms
in force. Even though the law allows migrant
workers to continue working after pregnancy and
their children to stay in Taiwan, it is still difficult
for them to balance work and childcare in reality.
In respect of the intent of related human rights
workers, including:
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Taiwan has relevant laws, regulations, and
implementing mechanisms, greater efforts are
still required in terms of practice. Based on the
above findings, the following recommendations
were made by our project.
and childcare of migrant workers.
ii. Establish a cross-ministry platform for
information and resource integration so as to
dispatch service resources.
iii. Strengthen legal protection mechanisms,
including:
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Ensure the communication of correct legal
knowledge to prevent information gap.
Optimize the verification system of contract
rescission.
Strengthen the mechanism for consultation
and grievance handling.
Provide guidance for migrant workers
to form labor union and consolidate
cooperation with it.
iv. Protect the rights of pregnant migrant workers,
including:
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Eliminate the barriers that hinder migrant
workers from taking their children back to
their hometown for placement.
v. Protect the rights of children of migrant
conventions and general comments, although
i. Grasp situations concerning the pregnancy
Build and expand continuously the resources
platform for pregnant migrant workers.
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Fund the childcare needs of migrant workers.
Help “unregistered children” of hidden
missing migrant-worker parents to walk out
of the shadows; a) to renounce reporting
and cracking down for serving the best
interests of the child, b) to optimize the
placement and assistance for children of
migrant workers under the Protection of
Children and Youths Welfare and Rights
Act.
Establish a mechanism for cooperation on
childcare and placement with the source
countries of migrant workers.
vi. Oversee migrant worker agencies to carry
out their duties and state clearly their service
items and the range of service charges.
vii. Fill up the service window of employers when
pregnant migrant caregivers take bed rest or
maternity leave.
viii. Protect the right to marriage and the right to
family reunion of migrant workers.
After the end of the project, we will continue our
dialogue with the general public for enhancing
their human rights awareness and will oversee
the relevant competent authorities to seek
improvement solutions.
Enhance the use of pregnancy placement
measures for migrant workers.
c. Promoting the human rights of migrant
workers through dialogue with experts
Encourage the use of assistance measures
based on the “principles for handling
pregnant migrant workers.”
Taiwan” on December 7, 2022 that caught public
National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report
The “Forum on Migrant Workers’ Human Rights in
attention was a dialogue on human rights that