Foreign domestic workers in Taiwan do not have a weekly mandatory rest day, despite this being a global standard already enforced in Hong Kong and Singapore. According to statistics by the Ministry of Labor (MOL), 34.7 percent of foreign domestic workers did not receive any days off last year. It also hinders the ability of foreign domestic workers to take advantage of growing opportunities provided by the government and civil society for training and education. More than 700,000 were working here at the end of last year, over a third of whom were domestic helpers or care-takers. Foreign domestic workers are not protected by the Labor Standards Act, which prescribes two regular days off every seven days.
