萬國法律事務所

Due to continuous criticisms of having employed numerous dispatched workers, and in order to better protect labor rights in Taiwan, Taiwan's Executive Yuan announced on 18 July that it will gradually reduce the number of dispatched laborers employed by the Executive Yuan and its affiliates within the next two years until all such workers have been phased-out. Thereafter, the Executive Yuan will recruit employees through a public selection process.
 
According to Kolas Yotaka (谷辣斯．尤達卡), the Executive Yuan’s spokesperson, the Executive Yuan and its affiliate agencies employed a total of 7,238 dispatched laborers in the first quarter of 2018, and the Council of Agriculture has the most dispatched laborers with 2,638 such hires, followed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare with 845 workers.
 
Those dispatched laborers are employed by private dispatching companies and dispatched to each of the government agencies, depending on the contracts between such government agencies and the dispatching companies. After the expiration of such contracts, these government agencies will not renew such contracts, and will instead recruit temporary employees through a public selection process.
 
Currently, as the dispatched laborers are supervised by government agencies but employed by dispatching companies, difficulties often arise in determining the responsibilities to the dispatched laborers between the government agencies and the dispatching companies, and this situation can negatively affect the labor rights of said dispatched workers. Under the new policy in the future, the government agencies will become the direct employers and will bear full responsibility to such temporary laborers.