Indonesian workers allege forced labor, salary cuts

ABUSE: The Indonesian technicians were allegedly promised about NT$50,000 per month, but their pay was slashed to NT$100 per hour upon their arrival By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The Ministry of Labor yesterday pledged to launch an investigation into allegations of forced labor and wage theft made by Indonesian technicians working on renewable energy projects in Taiwan.The ministry made the remarks hours after Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lin Yueh-chin (林月琴), together with the Taiwan Association for Human Rights and Taiwan Climate Action Network, leveled the accusations at the Taiwan branch of the Singapore-based Sheffield Green Co at a news conference in Taipei.Lin accused Sheffield Green, a labor agency specializing in providing workers f