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 33

When an employer applies to hire foreign workers pursuant to the provisions of Article 30 and the Central Competent Authority issues an initial recruitment permit, the foreign workers should be brought into the Republic of China within the time limit specified on the permit notification.An employer who applies to bring in foreign workers based on the previous paragraph must not exceed 50 percent of the number permitted by the initial recruitment permit. However, this does not apply when the number of domestic workers hired by an employer reaches 50 percent of the number expected to be hired.When an employer has not established a new labor insurance certificate number the number of domestic workers referenced in the provisos of the preceding paragraph should be calculated based on the domestic workers newly employed from the date the employer registered a certificate of employment demands with a public employment service agency to the date of the application.