Nearly 70 percent of foreign workers working as domestic helpers and caretakers in Taiwan earn a monthly salary of just NT$18,000 (US$566) -- below the current minimum wage of NT$19,273 -- without getting a single day off the whole year, according to a survey done by the Ministry of Labor.
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