The “market economy” for migrant workers right now, and they’re, H-O-T too! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Due to the outbreaks, started on May 19th, there’s, a shortage of migrant workers, because of the outbreaks, adding to the lacking in manpower, the construction companies are force up raise the wages to fight for the workers, and a lot of migrant workers saw that “it paid more working out of the systems”, and as they get caught, they don’t get taken to the detention centers, they’d called out to their fellow countrymen, to run to the construction sites to work unregistered, they even named their own prices, to raise up their own pays.
The statistics from the Offices of Internal Affairs found that there were a total of 52,000 missing migratory workers since the end of June, and since the bans on getting the migrant workers in started back on May 19th, there are, a continue rise in number of missing migrant workers, starting from January to May this year, Yunlin introduced more than 600 migrant workers, but during the time, those who ran off rose up to over 500, the employers felt victimized for spending the money, but not having the workers working for them.
“Everybody’s fighting for workers!”, the agent from the central region stated, there’s, a lacking in workers in all the industries, especially the smaller and mid-sized industries, the orders are filled completely, but there’s no workers to produce, they are forced to hire those runaway workers, and to the point, of paying them $1,500N.T. a day from the original amount of $800N.T. a day.
The agency pointed out, that the run away workers are in their twenties, able-bodied, and some went to the construction sites that are in need of manpower to work as unregistered workers, some worked on the tea plantations, the fruit plantations, he’d heard, that there were the construction sites that needed the molds getting tore down, and the wages went from $1,200N.T per day to $2,000N.T. per day, and $2,500N.T. per day is what workers here are paid normally.
The migrant workers by this agency had fifteen runaways this year, and a lot of the employers just finished paying for the quarantine costs of the workers, and the workers asked to be transferred elsewhere, and shortly, they were found, in the sex industries, arrested by the police, but due to the elevated alert levels, they were taken into custody, and, as they got released, they are, nowhere to be found again.
And so, this, is how it goes, because the country is in need of these, migrant workers, and the government isn’t, looking out for us, that’s why, this is, happening, besides, if you’re a runaway migrant worker, you can jack up your price for hire at your own wills, so long as you don’t get caught by immigrations, and, there’s, this lacking in workers in the industries all around, because, no more migrant workers are shipped here, due to MERS-CoV, that’s why, this is, happening right now!