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The National Immigration Agency (NIA) yesterday announced new measures to make it easier for foreign workers to apply for an Alien Resident Certificate (ARC).

Taipei, July 15 (CNA) Taiwan will shorten the time needed for foreign workers in Taiwan to get ID cards so that it can better protect the workers' rights and manage the country's foreign population, the National Immigration Agency said Saturday.

Taipei, July 6 (CNA) The Council of Labor Affairs plans to shorten the period of time it takes to process applications for white-collar workers of foreign nationalities who want to work in Taiwan, Labor Minister Wang Ju-hsuan said in Taipei Friday.

TAIPEI--Filipino workers at Taiwan Glass Industry Corp. accused their employer yesterday of abusing them and called the working conditions at the company's factory in Taoyuan County harsh.

TAIPEI--An opposition legislator charged Friday that a large number of Chinese nationals are being illegally hired to work in Taiwan and she urged authorities to crack down on the practice.

TAIPEI -- Police in Taichung City, central Taiwan, recently arrested 11 migrant workers from Indonesia who had run away from their employees and were living in shared apartments in two locations in the city.

In response to public demand, the Council of Labor Affairs recently unveiled a plan to ease the restrictions on hiring foreign caregivers for senior citizens over the age of 80 who suffer a certain degree of disability. The change is expected to benefit 33,000 elderly people.

More than 1,000 labor union members, activists, medical interns, nurses, migrant workers, teachers and students expressed their dissatisfaction with working conditions and the employment environment in a protest in Taipei on Workers’ Day yesterday.