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 27
Employers with any of the following qualifications that have an application for new investment approved by the central competent authority in charge of the target business can apply for an initial foreign worker recruitment permit:1. Certified factory registration document attesting to the establishment of a new factory.2. Individuals who meet the qualification in the previous subparagraph and any of the following conditions:(1) High-tech industry investment of NT$$500 million or more in the manufacturing sector, or manufacturing investment of NT$100 million or more by other industries.(2) When a new investment plan estimates that within one year of the new factory being registered it will hire 100 or more domestic workers.The application for accreditation in the previous paragraph should be submitted from March 13, 2013, when the amendments to the Standards came into effect, to December 31, 2014.After accreditation detailed in Paragraph 1 employers can apply one time to the Central Competent Authority to hire foreign workers, but the total number of foreign workers applied for and already employed foreign workers must not exceed the ratio calculated by multiplying the number of employees estimated by the central competent authority in charge of the target business by the allocation ratio in Addendum 6 of Article 25 and Article 25-1, added to the ratio in the previous Article.When the ratio of employed foreign workers referred to in the previous paragraph conforms to either of the following rules the employer does not have to pay the additional employment security fee referred to in the previous Article for a period of three years:1. Subparagraph 1, Paragraph: 1: 5 percent or less.2. Subparagraph 2, Paragraph: 1: 10 percent or less.Addendum 6 Allocation ratio number of employees and total number of foreign workers when foreign workers are employed to engage in work detailed in Article 25.pdf