According to the common definition held internationally, labor includes both blue-collar and white-collar employees. At present there are six million laborers on Taiwan that account for an estimated one-third of the population.
按照國際勞工組織的定義，勞工包括藍領和白領的所有受雇人員，目前台灣地區有六百多萬名勞工，約佔總人口的三分之一。