2025年5月28日
Taiwan: Migrants employed in chip manufacturing to meet surging AI demand allege exploitation by brokers profiting from their recruitment; incl. cos. comments
要約
Date Reported: 2025年5月28日
場所: 台湾
企業
Champion Manpower Group - Labour Supplierその他
Not Reported ( テクノロジー：一般 ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Labour Supplier関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 製造業: 一般 , Men , Unknown migration status )課題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 情報へのアクセス回答
見解が求められた : Yes, by Journalist
External link to response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Champion does not engage in such practices as it “operates on a zero-fee policy,” its assistant manager said. He said individuals impersonate the company to scam workers.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2025年5月28日
場所: 台湾
その他
Not Reported ( テクノロジー：一般 ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Labour Supplier関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 製造業: 一般 , Women , Unknown migration status )課題
傷害 , Denial of leave , Social Security , 表現の自由の否定回答
見解が求められた : いいえ
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2025年5月28日
場所: 台湾
その他
Not Reported ( テクノロジー：一般 ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Labour Supplier関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 製造業: 一般 , 利性別は不明 , Unknown migration status )課題
Work & Conditions回答
見解が求められた : Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: The firm declined to comment.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2025年5月28日
場所: 台湾
その他
Not Reported ( テクノロジー：一般 ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Labour Supplier関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 製造業: 一般 , 利性別は不明 , Unknown migration status )課題
Work & Conditions回答
見解が求められた : Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: The firm declined to comment.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2025年5月28日
場所: 台湾
その他
Not Reported ( テクノロジー：電子機器、インターネット及び通信事業者 ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Labour Supplier関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - フィリピン , 製造業: 一般 , Men , Undocumented migrants )課題
Failing to renew visas , 恣意的な拘留回答
見解が求められた : いいえ
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
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“Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives”
… The brokers have incredible sway over the workers’ lives…Too often, brokers abuse this power…
Taiwan – the world’s dominant source of semiconductors – has recruited a record number of people from nearby nations to meet the surge in demand for chips for AI…
Many chip manufacturers now have lines almost entirely staffed by Filipinos…
Rest of World discussed the broker system with more than 20 Filipino semiconductor workers and industry experts…
A Filipino migrant chip worker and former resident at the Taichung shelter, who asked to be called Luis, said he had to flee a job packing chips after his broker squeezed him for money, including abnormally high electricity bills…
Champion Manpower Group, a top broker firm one worker complained about, said it doesn’t charge workers to help them find new jobs, and that if it discovered any brokers doing so, they would be fired…
Two other broker firms that workers complained about declined to comment.
Manpower Agencies Association, a broker industry association group, did not respond to requests for comment. The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association declined to comment…
Not all brokers expect bribes, and it is illegal to demand them, said May Chen, a manager at May God Human Resources, a brokerage agency…