Utilize financing programs to stimulate the growth of startup companies and small and medium enterprises. Concurrently, encourage the procurement of environmentally-friendly products to reduce the impacts of the products on the environment. Assist business units in implementing occupational safety management via educational campaigns, inspections, and other mechanisms; establish an employ-friendly environment, and secure the safety and health of workers. Efforts to safeguard the safety and health of workers such as citizens, specific objects, migrant workers, etc. Achieve the goals “healthy workplace”, “safe environment” and “zero occupational accidents”, while improving the quality of the workplace and ensuring a healthy environment for industrial development.
Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavor to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead.
By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.
By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.
In addition to adjusting the target customer base for the Chinese market and developing mainland business customers to Taiwan, also actively develop high-potential tourists from Europe, the United States, Russia, and the Middle East while cultivating the mature markets of Japan and South Korea, and collaborating with the new southbound policy, to expand the tourism market in the ten ASEAN countries and Muslims, in order to enhance the City’s tourism image and attract global tourists to the City for tourism consumption and to build a safe and friendly tourism environment. Irregular public safety inspections of general tourism hotels are conducted. To encourage hotels to achieve energy saving and carbon reduction, promote the reduction of energy consumption in hotels, increase electricity efficiency, subsidize hotels for the replacement of old equipment, and encourage the implementation of energy management. Electricity is saved nearly 10 million kWh annually. The principles of energy saving and carbon reduction are combined to realize the purpose of sustainable tourism.
Taipei City Government teams up with Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank Co. Ltd. and the SME Credit Guarantee Fund of Taiwan in helping small and medium-sized enterprises and young entrepreneurs with grants and funding, to foster development of the industry. From 2015 to 2019, a total of 1,786 cases had been approved, with an approved loan amount of over 1,528.02 million dollars.
Private organizations are entrusted to the carrying out of the regaining of employment services for people with disabilities. In 2019, a total of 62 professional personnel from 13 organizations were entrusted to providing employment matching services for job seekers with disabilities, with an employment rate of 56.8%.
Using the “case management service model”, find out about the job seekers’ academic and work experiences through one-on-one professional consultants at Employment Services Offices, and evaluate the employability and understand the employment difficulties and needs.Individuals with proficient employability are recommended suitable employment. Those with insufficient employability or who do not meet needs of the job market are recommended to participate in vocational training courses to develop a second set of expertise.
If the individual is willing to start a business, then entrepreneurship seminars will be arranged to increase entrepreneurial knowledge and skills. Entrepreneurial consultation services are also provided; through professional guidance of consultants, entrepreneurial difficulties will decrease and success rate will be increased.
For lifelong career planning for senior and middle-aged and silver-haired groups, silver-haired employment consultation stations are set up. Through continuous expansion of joint youth-elderly employment consultation stations, the young and the old alike can all seek lifelong career planning at employment consultation stations. New employment model of youth-elderly co-work and microtask are being tried out, in order to promote the re-entry into labor market for senior and middle-aged and silver-haired groups, so to successfully return to the job market and work healthily.
With statistics up to 2019, 54,108 newly registered job seekers had been accumulated, 36,972 job seekers were employed, with the employment rate of 68.33%; the number of newly registered specific target job seekers was 26,998, specific target employment was 17,070, with the employment rate of 63.23%.
Recruiting events are held for businesses in need to provide the public and employee-seeking companies with more refined and professional employment services. Through real-time matchmaking and interview channels with open and transparent salaries, job-seekers and employee-seekers can quickly matchmake. In 2019, 11 medium- and large-scale recruitment events and 415 small-scale events were organized.
For the employment of young people, middle-aged and senior individuals, youth-elderly themed job fairs are held to develop friendly enterprises willing to hire senior and senior and middle-aged individuals for suitable positions, to assist middle-aged and senior individuals in employment matchmaking. In addition, job fairs are combined with enterprise internships; through mock interview, resume inspection, career consultation services, provide internships experiences and full-time job opportunities in order to promote youth employment.
In August 2019, the “youth-elderly co-work to shine” job fair was held, totaling 5,357 attendances, of which the initial match rate of senior and middle-aged group was 45.7%. Then on December 7, the “senior and middle-aged mobilization” job fair was held, totaling 4,613 attendances, of which the initial match rate of senior and middle-aged group was 61.08%. Actively assist with the employment of silver-haired group, and through the above activities, propose the employment of silver-haired group to enterprises and encourage employers to consider the feasibility of employment.
To fulfill the needs of residents seeking jobs using electronic products, “Taipei Job Bank (okwork)” is implemented to provide comprehensive services through diversified yet onestop window. Website functions are optimized each year to provide simplified processes for ease of public use via online operations. Through the website, methods, seminars, activity information, awards and subsidy measures are provided to implement age management. The data of actual enterprises with age friendly hiring measures are published, to encourage enterprises in increased employment of senior and middle-aged and senior labors, so to maintain industry competitiveness and productivity. In 2019, a total of 11,154,819 page views were accumulated.
In response to the advent of an aging society, implement short-term employment (career transfer) experience camps, so that middle-aged and senior citizens can realize the characteristics of different industries in advance, so to assist in the adjustment of job search. And, for current workers or the general public looking for career transfer, middle-aged and senior applications. In 2019, the Vocational Development Institute implemented nine classes of middle-aged and senior individual employment (career transfer) experience camps with 147 participants; nine classes of middle-aged and senior individual priority vocational training courses with 180 participants (including 128 participants who are 45 years or older); outsourced nine classes of senior and middle-aged and senior individual priority vocational upgrading courses with 270 participants (including 208 participants who are 45 years or older). Besides, in 2019, there were 1,280 participants aged over 45 years old in the vocational training programs, 1,221 successful trainees completed the training, and 848 graduated trainees were employed.
Created the “Urban Guide Pilot Project” through cross-departmental collaboration between Department of Labor, Taipei City Employment Services Office, Department of Social Welfare, Department of Information and Tourism, Department of Cultural Affairs and Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. On August 15, 2019, a press conference for urban guide launching ceremony was held, and thus far have assisted up to 10 homeless people participate in the project.
For senior and middle-aged and other specific disadvantaged job seekers, actively promote “job redesign” resources. In 2019, silver-haired job hunters were assisted in the number of 20,494, and 12,776 became employed, with employment rate reaching 62.34%. Meanwhile, to alleviate the effects of physiological aging factors on work efficiency, collaboration with the Ministry of Labor was made to execute “promotion of senior and middle-aged job redesign plan”, through improving workplace environment, work equipment or machineries, employment aids, improving work conditions or adjusting work methods and processes, to eliminate the obstacles in the workplace.
To urge businesses to value workplace safety, abide by labor laws and regulations, and actively implement occupational safety and health management, the number of occupational safety and health inspections reached 100% in 2019. Additionally, assist businesses to carry out education training by carrying out the “Occupational Safety and Health College”. Through idea sharing of instructors and teaching materials, build partnership relations with relevant associations, unions, businesses, schools, government offices and communities, to co-conduct occupational safety and health education trainings. In 2019, a total of 1,432 sessions were conducted with 73,528 attendances.
For improvements to the working environment, an occupational safety and health counseling group is established to help organize safety and health promotions, counseling and related activities of small and medium-sized enterprises within the jurisdiction of the City. In 2019, 490 counseling sessions were conducted for “indoor decoration and small construction sites” due to its higher occupational injury rates.
Set up an assuredness plan for employers hiring foreign caregivers. According to the needs of the hiring family, a professional team made of nurses and bilingual interpreters will conduct health management assessments for the care recipient, and provide one-on-one technical guidance and life care. Beginning from 2019, further enhance the understanding of behavioral problems caused by dementia for migrant workers to avoid occupational injuries, injuries incurred by care recipients, and to ensure the rights of employers and migrant workers.
At the same time, institutionalize the resolution meetings of migrant worker dispute cases. Regularly organize the recurrent education training of lawyer arbitrators, and discuss cases and regulation amendments to improve occupational abilities of lawyer arbitrators to increase reconciliation opportunities. Also, establish professional coordination SOP regarding disputed cases and include professional interpreters into the system to implement division of professional work, so to protect the rights of employers and migrant workers.