Article 1
These Standards are drawn upon in accordance with Paragraph 2 of Article 35 of the <br />Employment Services Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act).
Article 2
Fee-charging items of these Standards shall be defined as follows:<br />1. Registration fee: Expense required for undertaking job-seeking or recruitment <br />registration.<br />2. Placement fee: Expense required for matchmaking job seeker and employer to <br />conclude employment relations.<br />3. Vocational psychology-testing fee: Expense required for evaluating vocational <br />ability of job seeker.<br />4. Employment counseling fee: Expense required for helping job seeker understand <br />his/her personality characteristics of employment, and formulating his/her direction <br />of employment.<br />5. Services fee: Expenses required for undertaking employment services matters <br />designated by the central competent authority in accordance with Subparagraph 4 <br />of Paragraph 1 of Article 35 of the Act, and transportation costs for receiving and <br />sending off foreign person(s) are included.
Article 3
The profit employment services institution when being entrusted by employer to <br />undertake business activities of employment services may charge employer fees, of <br />which the items and amounts are as follows:<br />1. Registration fee and placement fee:<br />a. The first month salary of the employee recruited is less than the average salary;<br />both fees in total shall not exceed his/her first month salary.<br />b. The first month salary of the employee recruited is more than the average <br />salary; both fees in total shall not exceed his/her four-month salary.<br />2. Services fee: No more than two thousand New Taiwan dollars for each employee <br />per annum.<br />The average salary prescribed in Subparagraph 1 of previous Paragraph denotes the <br />average salary per month of workers in both industry and service sector in the newest <br />edition of earnings by industry and occupation statistics publicly announced by the <br />central competent authority.
Article 4
The profit employment services institution when being entrusted by domestic job <br />seeker to undertake business activities of employment services may charge domestic <br />job seeker fees, of which the items and amounts are as follows:<br />1. Registration fee and placement fee: Both fees in total shall not exceed five percent <br />of job seeker's first month salary.<br />2. Employment counseling fee: No more than one thousand New Taiwan dollars per <br />hour.<br />3. Vocational psychology-testing fee: Each test shall not be charged more than seven <br />hundred New Taiwan dollars.
Article 5
The profit employment services institution when being entrusted by foreign person to <br />undertake business activities of employment services relating to work prescribed in <br />Subparagraph 1 to Subparagraph 7 or Subparagraph 11 of Paragraph 1 of Article 46 of <br />the Act may charge foreign person fees, of which the items and amounts are as <br />follows:<br />1. Registration fee and placement fee: Both fees in total shall not exceed the first <br />month salary of foreign person, unless it is agreed by the foreign person that the <br />conditions of recruitment are special.<br />2. Services fee: No more than two thousand New Taiwan dollars per year.
Article 6
The profit employment services institution is allowed to charge service fees from a foreigner when the foreigner delegates the agency to seek for employment vacancies regulated in Subparagraph 8 to 10, Paragraph 1 of Article 46 of the Act.<br />The amount of the service fee in the previous paragraph should not be over NT$1,800 for each month in the first year, NT$1,700 for each month in the second year and should be not be over NT$1,500 for each month after the third year according to the foreigner working cumulative time into the country at the time . However, the fee should not be over NT$1,500 for each moth if the employee has been hired for over two years, or the employee has to leave the county and make re-entry due to the termination of employment or the expiration of employment duration and is hired again by the same employer.<br />The fee in the previous paragraph should not be charged in advance.
Article 7
The non-profit employment services institution when being entrusted to undertake <br />business activities of employment services may charge employer, domestic job seeker <br />or foreign person fees, of which the items apply to the provisions of Paragraph 3 to <br />Paragraph 6 and the amounts shall not exceed eighty percent of the amounts <br />prescribed in Paragraph 3 to Paragraph 6.
Article 8
These Standards shall be put into practice on the date of promulgation.