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Title: 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 CH
Category: Ministry of Labor(勞動部)
Attachment:
Chapter XI Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, or Aquaculture Work
Article 56
Employers who hire foreign workers to work at locations referred to in Subparagraph 6, Article 5 to engage in agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry or aquaculture work, are required to be involved in one of the following categories of work:
1. Management of livestock farms engaged in livestock and poultry management, breeding, milking, egg collection, livestock farm environment management, waste disposal and reuse, feed preparation, disease prevention, and animal husbandry related manual work.
2. Manual work related to the cultivation of vegetables, flowers, plant seeds, fruit trees, miscellaneous grains, specialty crops, etc. and protected agricutural crops. However, this does not include manual work related to the cultivation of betel nuts, betel peppers and tobacco.
3. Manual work related to growing seeds, afforestation, silviculture and logging.
4. Feed management, breeding, harvesting and aquaculture environment cleaning for aquaculture products, as well as aquaculture related manual work.
5. Management of any manual work related to agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, or aquaculture designated by the Central Competent Authority in consultation with the central competent authority in charge of the target business.
Employers referred to in the preceding paragraph deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of Addendum 12 by the central competent authority in charge of the target business can apply for an initial recruitment permit to employ foreign workers.
When an employer hires foreign workers to engage in agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, or aquaculture work referred to in Paragraph 1, the allocation ratio, number of employees and total number of foreign workers employed must be in compliance with the provisions of Addendum 12.