Is It Legal To Work for Your Room? Like at a hostel

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@tango42

“Volunteering” is illegal isn’t it? Even if you are “working for nothing”, seems technically still illegal.

Volunteering is now legal, I believe, with the usual allowance for “Who knows what a given official will say on a given day”:

Most volunteer work now OK without work permit

[Cross-posted from Forward Taiwan @ FB] Here is Forward Taiwan’s translation of a new letter of interpretation from the Ministry of Labor that significantly expands the scope of unpaid volunteer work that foreign nationals can do in Taiwan without a work permit. In a nutshell, foreign nationals can now work as unpaid volunteers on public interest projects such as beach cleanups, animal shelters, or other informal projects. Previously, foreign nationals could only volunteer at registered charit…