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 47

Where an employer undertakes a public works project and still needs to employ foreign workers during the inspection and acceptance period, when the project authority (institution) issues a certificate for the scheduled completion date, the employer should apply to the Central Competent Authority for an employment permit extension 14~120 days prior to the expiration of the original employment permit.The number of foreign workers involved in the employment permit extension referred to in the preceding paragraph must be no more than 50% of the total foreign workers hired for the project.When a foreign worker is absent from work for three consecutive days without a justifiable reason and cannot be contacted the competent authority must be notified and he/she will not be included in the number of foreign workers hired referred to in the preceding Paragraph.The extended employment permit period for foreign workers referred to in Paragraph 1 can be no longer than the expected inspection and acceptance period. Moreover, the employment permit period plus the extended employment permit period can be no longer than three years.