Despite the size of the foreign workforce, Lin Tsong-ming, director general of the CLA's Employment and Vocational Training Administration (EVTA), views the importation of foreign labor as a matter of expediency, providing a source of supplementary manpower rather than substituting for existing supply. But labor groups take a different view.
雖然外勞人數可觀，但勞委會職訓局局長林聰明表示，引進外勞是權宜之計，對國內勞力市場，是補充性而非替代性，然而勞工團體卻有不同的看法。