1. In order to review employer applications to hire or continue the employment of foreign workers engaged in work detailed in Subparagraphs 8 to 10 and intermediate skilled work detailed in Subparagraph 11, Paragraph 1, Article 46 of the Employment Service Act, the Ministry of Labor (hereinafter the Ministry) has drafted these discretionary standards for the “Foreign Worker Life Care Service Plan” that is part of inspections to be conducted by the local competent authority when notified within the statutory period.

2. Employers are required to comply with the provisions of Article 33 and Article 47 of the “Regulations on the Permission and Administration of the Employment of Foreign Workers” and draft a Foreign Worker Life Care Service Plan with the following items and standards to be included:
(1) Ocean fishing work (living on land), institutional care work, manufacturing work, construction work, slaughterhouse work, outreach manufacturing work, outreach agricultural work, diverse companionship care service work, and intermediate skilled ocean fishing work (living on land), institutional care work, manufacturing work, construction work, slaughterhouse work, outreach agricultural work.
(2) Foreign workers engaged in ocean fishing work (living on board the vessel) and intermediate skilled ocean fishing work (living on board the vessel)
(3) Foreign workers engaged in live-in home help, live-in care work, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry work or aquaculture fishing work and intermediate skilled live-in care work and agricultural work