Review Standards and Employment Qualifications for Foreign Workers Engaged in Work Specified in Subparagraphs 8 to 10, Paragraph 1, Article 46 of the Employment Service Act Article 21
When foreign workers are employed to engage in live-in care giving work referred to in Subparagraph 3, Article 4 of the Standards, the employer and care recipient are required to have one of the following relationships:1. Spouse.2. Direct blood relative.3. Collateral blood relations within three degrees of kinship.4. Step parents, stepchild, spouse’s parents or step parents, spouse of children or step children.5. Spouse of grandparents and grandchildren, step grandparents and grandchildren, spouse of step grandparents and grandchildren.When the employer or care recipient is a foreign national, they are required to have a permit issued by the competent authority to reside in the Republic of China.If the care recipient does not have relatives in the Republic of China, or their circumstances lead to them being designated a special case by the Central Competent Authority, only then can a person who is not a relative of the care recipient or the care recipient be designated the employer when applying to hire a foreign worker. However, when the care recipient is designated an employer, he/she shall designate a person with full legal capacity to perform employer responsibilities when the care recipient is unable to do so.
中文原文 外國人從事就業服務法第四十六條第一項第八款至第十一款工作資格及審查標準第21條
外國人受聘僱從事第四條第三款之家庭看護工作，雇主與被看護者間應有下列親屬關係之一：
一、配偶。
二、直系血親。
三、三親等內之旁系血親。
四、繼父母、繼子女、配偶之父母或繼父母、子女或繼子女之配偶。
五、祖父母與孫子女之配偶、繼祖父母與孫子女、繼祖父母與孫子女之配偶。
雇主或被看護者為外國人時，應經主管機關許可在我國居留。
被看護者在我國無親屬，或情況特殊經中央主管機關專案核定者，得由與被看護者無親屬關係之人擔任雇主或以被看護者為雇主申請聘僱外國人。
但以被看護者為雇主者，應指定具行為能力人於其無法履行雇主責任時，代為履行。
一、配偶。
二、直系血親。
三、三親等內之旁系血親。
四、繼父母、繼子女、配偶之父母或繼父母、子女或繼子女之配偶。
五、祖父母與孫子女之配偶、繼祖父母與孫子女、繼祖父母與孫子女之配偶。
雇主或被看護者為外國人時，應經主管機關許可在我國居留。
被看護者在我國無親屬，或情況特殊經中央主管機關專案核定者，得由與被看護者無親屬關係之人擔任雇主或以被看護者為雇主申請聘僱外國人。
但以被看護者為雇主者，應指定具行為能力人於其無法履行雇主責任時，代為履行。