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June 2019

If an employer retains an employment institution to provide care services to foreign workers, relevant expenses shall not be directly collected by the employment institution from the foreign workers to offset the retainer fees payable by the employers (Taiwan)

June 2019

Even though a group insurance applicant has agreed with a worker not to make accurate filings, the monthly insurance salary should still be reported accurately; and since the worker cannot facilitate the occurrence of false filings or the aggravation of damage, the fault-balance principle certainly does not apply (Taiwan)

June 2019

The Statute for Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area cleared through three legislative readings with an increased ceiling of penalty for unauthorized investment in Taiwan by mainland China investors (Taiwan)

June 2019

The FSC deregulated the switch from private placement for real estate securitization to public offering to promote private investment in public infrastructure (Taiwan)

June 2019

To determine whether the launch of the drug at issue by an enterprise which uses a package similar to other drugs with the same functions in the market constitutes an act of unfair competition which confuses the consumers and undermines the trading order, the Supreme Court held that factors such as the business trading practices for prescription drugs, industry characteristics and the placement location of the advertisement for the drug at issue should be generally considered. (Taiwan)

June 2019

If the entirety of the portion in a government procurement project that shall be performed by the contractor on its own under the original contract is performed by another supplier on behalf of the contractor, this would constitute a subcontract under the Government Procurement Law, but the internal relationship between the suppliers is not a pertinent issue (Taiwan)