News Advisory: Extensive Crackdowns On Overstayed Migrant Workers

Extensive crackdowns on overstayed migrant workers form October

The Ministry of Justice conducts campaigns to induce voluntary departure. Extensive Crackdown on unregistered migrant workers will be on Sept 2. The Ministry of Justice declared that they designated the Month of September as “Voluntary departure Inducement and eradication of Illegal Employment” period, and that they plan guiding campaigns at migrants-populated area and industrial areas in cooperation with Ministry of Labor, and the Small and Medium Business Administration. The Ministry of Justice expects that many of 310,000 migrant workers whose visas are expected to expire during the later half of this year have possibilities to evade departure and to become unregistered migrant workers.

Current Status of Unregistered Migrant Workers (Unit Person)

Year No. of Migrants Unregistered Migrants Rate of Unregistered
2005 747,476 204,254 27.3%
2006 910,149 211,988 32.3%
2007 1,066,273 223,464 21.0%
2008 1,158,866 200,489 17.3%
2009 1,158,765 184,716 15.9%

The Ministry of Justice said the purpose of the campaign is to minimize resistances of migrant workers by inducing voluntary departures and announcing extensive crackdowns during the month of October and November.

Following the plan, the Ministry of Justice said that Government Cooperation Campaign Teams composed of officials of Ministry Labor and the Small and Medium Business Administrations will visit the migrant-populated areas and industrial areas and they will distribute campaign leaflets. They also said that they are going to send separate email to the companies.

The campaign leaflet advice owners of companies of legal employment of migrant workers if companies employed unregistered migrant workers would be fine 20 million and cannot hire migrant workers for 3 years.

The leaflet also says that if unregistered migrant workers leave the country voluntarily they will be exempted from penalties and their entry limitations will be less than 1 year.

An officials of the Ministry of Labor said that “After the inducement campaigns, the Ministry of Justice will start extensive crackdowns on unregistered migrant workers on October 2011.



by Bhing Diamzon
Sulyapinoy, Editor in Chief


courtesy of Ministry of Labor and Immigration

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