Abolish the work-year limit ! Migrant Workers Rally
December 7 @ 12:30 pm
Abolish the work-year limit !
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JOIN 2025 Migrants workers Rally
Assembly Time: Sunday, December 7, 2025
at 12:30 PM, March starts at 1:30 PM
Assembly Location: Ministry of Labor
(No. 207, Songjiang Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City)
March Ending Point: Legislative Yuan
(No. 1, Zhongshan South Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City)
March Route:
Songjiang Rd → Minsheng E. Rd (U-turn) → Songjiang Rd → Nanjing E. Rd → Linsen S. Rd → Jinan Rd → Zhongshan S. Rd
In Taiwan, blue-collar migrant workers are restricted by a 12-year employment limit. Many who wish to continue working here are forced to leave once they reach that limit, even if they want to stay.
In recent years, the government introduced the Foreign Intermediate Skilled Workforce Program, hoping to retain experienced workers. However, the power to decide whether a worker may stay and apply for intermediate skilled status rests entirely with the employer. As a result, migrant workers who wish to remain in Taiwan often have no choice but to accept poor conditions and face an even higher risk of exploitation by brokers and employers.
Under the work-year restrictions, migrant workers are treated like disposable chopsticks — used and discarded. They devote their best years to Taiwan, yet our society bears almost no responsibility for their retirement security or later-life care. It is blatant injustice.
This year, we are calling for: All blue-collar migrant workers should be treated the same as other foreign workers — free from work-year limit, and able to decide for themselves how long they want to stay and work here.
We sincerely invite everyone to join us on 7 December, to take to the streets and demand the abolition of the work-year limit for blue-collar migrant workers!
