Regulations on the Permission and Administration of the Employment of Foreign Workers Article 17

In order to apply to employ type B foreign workers, an employer is required to offer reasonable employment terms and register such job openings with a local public employment services agency, and following registration advertise such job ads on the nationwide Employment Information Network established by the Central Competent Authority pursuant to Article 22 of the Act, and seek to recruit domestic workers for a minimum of seven days. However, if an employer also advertises such job openings in domestic newspapers assigned by the Central Competent Authority for two consecutive days at the same time, he/she can seek to recruit domestic workers for a minimum of three days after the advertisement period ends.The advertisement for the job openings detailed in the above paragraph shall specify the type of work, number of persons to be recruited, required specialty or qualifications, name of the employer, wage/salary, work hours, work location, employment period, whether meals are provided and the name, address and telephone number of the public employment service agency that processed the registration.When conducting recruitment as referred to in the above paragraph, the employer is required to notify the labor union or workers of the business entity involved in the recruitment and publicly announce the recruitment in a location where it can be readily seen by employees.When an employer applies to hire a live-in foreign care worker, domestic recruitment should be conducted in accordance with the following provisions:1. If the care recipient meets the provisions detailed in Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 2, Article 18 of the “Review Standards and Employment Qualifications for Foreign Workers Engaging in Work Specified in Subparagraphs 8 to 11, Paragraph 1, Article 46 of the Employment Service Act” (hereinafter Review Standards), the application should be processed in accordance with Article 18.2. If the care recipient meets the provisions detailed in Paragraph 3, Article 18 of the Review Standards, the applicant should present their identity documents and the application be processed in accordance with Article 18-1.