When Taiwan decided to establish an employment insurance system to better maintain social security and guarantee the basic needs of unemployed laborers, it evaluated the approach used by South Korea, which in 1999 added unemployment benefit payments to its labor insurance system.
為了維護社會安全、保障失業勞工的基本生活，我國乃參考鄰國韓國的作法，從 1999 年起在勞工保險中增加「失業給付」。