[The passage which @tando quoted, immediately above, is located here, in a very large document in PDF format; clicking the link in the word “here” will cause a window to pop up for downloading that PDF document from the site of the National Development Council.]
Thanks for that one, @tando. If I’m reading this correctly, it means that there are other people who find the law confusing. The employer assumed it was adequate to put the head office in Taipei as the workplace, even though the worker was going to work in a factory located in Guanyin District in Taoyuan, which appears to be about 43 kilometers away. This would supposedly cause problems when applying for a work permit.
Edited to add:
@GreatInternetMaster, I see that @yyy posted about the issue 32 minutes ago in another part of the board:
Regarding concern (as expressed by @Charlie_Jack in one of the Coronavirus threads) that working from home might get you in trouble, I don’t think you need to worry about this, as long as it’s requested by the employer as a temporary measure for OHS purposes in light of a public health emergency. (I’m talking about pure telework online, not turning your home into a classroom, factory, laboratory or what not.)
Thank you, @yyy, and thanks again, @tando!
Edited to add again; here’s an interesting post in the thread about working remote:
As a data point: for several years my company registration was listed at a different address (New Taipei) to my home (Taipei), and I worked from home. I had three labor inspections over this time. For the first one, I went to the company address to meet the inspector and during our chat explained I worked from home. The following two inspections the New Taipei inspector was happy to send the Taipei inspector over to my home by request. I can’t tell if this was influenced by being the 負責人. TL;DR…