CLA Chairman Lee Ying-yuan said that, to help alleviate labor shortages in that sector, the council has decided to allow some 10,000 foreign laborers to work evenings in factories this year, following last year’s creation of 20,000 jobs for foreign workers in the local industrial sector.

Lee made the remarks during a visit to three high-technology companies in Hsinchu Science Park to gain a better understanding of labor shortages in Taiwan’s “Silicon Valley.”

Lee said the government has imposed few restrictions on the hiring of high-caliber or skilled workers in the high-technology manufacturing sector — ruling only that potential job applicants from abroad should be university graduates with at least two years of work experience.

Based on this, Lee said, Taiwan’s high-technology companies should have no problems recruiting skilled workers from abroad.

According to Liu Yueh-chun, a spokesman for Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. (PSC) — one of the three high technology companies that Lee visited Thursday — the PSC group will create 1,577 job openings this year after it struck an agreement with the Japanese Elpida Memory Inc. to establish a joint facility in central Taiwan for DRAM production.

The PSC group will need an additional 1,500 workers every year for the following three years, Liu added.

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