Chen Xuesheng said that in recent years, minors have been exploited, defrauded, and not covered by labor health insurance due to part-time jobs. It has been heard from time to time that violations of the Labor Standards Act have been reported. The picture is a schematic diagram of the police propaganda.

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[Reporter Shi Xiaoguang/Taipei Report] Chen Xuesheng, the convener of the Education, Culture and Sports Group of the Kuomintang think tank, pointed out today that he recently received complaints from parents that minors concealed part-time jobs, and even found that when seeking jobs through part-time job platforms, they faked their parents’ consent on the legal representative’s consent form. Although the Labor Standards Law stipulates that "when a person under the age of 18 is employed as a worker, the employer shall prepare the letter of consent of his legal representative and his age certification document", but after investigation, it was found that the current part-time job platform does not target minors. The consent of the legal representative is verified, which makes the relevant regulations a mere formality.

Chen Xuesheng said that in recent years, minors have been exploited, defrauded, and not covered by labor health insurance due to part-time work. It has been heard from time to time that violations of the Labor Standards Law have been reported. However, the government has long lacked attention to the issue of underage labor. Normal statistics and special investigation reports It is also very lacking, and the specification of the consent letter of the legal representative for the gatekeeping of the part-time job platform is also insufficient. He called on the Ministry of Labor to set up an exclusive investigation unit for minor labor issues, and improve the gatekeeping mechanism of the part-time job platform to effectively protect the labor rights of minors .

Chen Xuesheng said that the normal statistical data released by the Ministry of Labor, whether in "employment number", "employment type" or "labor force participation rate", are based on the 5-year-old age group of 15-19 years old and the 10-year-old age group of 15-24 years old The group is a unit, and no special statistics are made for the group of minors aged 15 to under 18. In terms of "labor dispute acceptance cases", there are only columns such as gender, identity, region, industry, and main dispute category. It is not included in the statistics and analysis of the "age" column, which shows that the government has not conducted regular tracking and management of the situation and problems of underage labor.

He also said that although the Ministry of Health and Welfare's "Survey on the Living Conditions of Children and Adolescents" included survey items on the "working status" of teenagers aged 12 to under 18, it was limited to the number, nature and location of migrant workers, and did not target people of different ages. Investigations into the labor situation of minors also ignore aspects such as labor disputes and difficulties, so that it is difficult to implement the improvement of the working environment of minors and the protection of labor rights and interests.