刷卡監控
Local chipmakers have been accused of locking up migrant workers in dormitories while struggling to maintain production as an outbreak of COVID-19 hits Taiwan’s tech industry.
新冠疫情衝擊台灣科技業，許多本土晶片製造廠被控將移工關在宿舍，以維持產線正常運作。
accuse sb. of sth.指控某人做…dormitory(n.)宿舍=dormstruggle to RV努力試圖做…
Under pressure from health authorities to prevent cluster infections within their factories, some tech companies have adopted extreme measures to restrict their workers’ freedom of movement.
在衛生單位要求防止工廠內群聚感染的壓力下，有些科技公司採取極端措施限制工人的行動自由。
authority(n.)當局;官方cluster(n.)(同類事物)聚集、群cluster infections群聚感染adopt(v.)採取freedom of movement行動自由
ASE, the world’s largest chip packaging and testing house, Siliconware Precision Industries Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of ASE, as well as Innolux Corporation, a company that produces TFT LCD panels, are alleged to have confined foreign workers to their dormitories when they are off duty.
全球最大的晶片封裝與測試公司日月光、日月光的子公司矽品，以及生產TFT LCD面板的群創，被控限制移工在下班後都必須待在宿舍。
house(n.)公司subsidiary(n.)子公司panel(n.)面板allege(v.)(未經證實地)指責;宣稱;指控confine(v.)把⋯⋯侷限在、限制、(強制)關押、監禁off duty下班的;不在職的on duty上班的;當職的
Some employers have resorted to scare tactics to keep their foreign workers at the dorm, telling them if they die from COVID-19, they will be cremated right away and their families will not even be able to see their bodies.
有些雇主甚至訴諸恐嚇手段，要移工好好待在宿舍，告訴他們如果染疫過世，將立即火化，家人甚至連遺體也無法見到。
resort to訴諸…手段scare tactics恐嚇戰術cremate(v.)火化;火葬
Some threatened their employees with medical costs or even financial penalties if they get infected with the coronavirus.
還有雇主威脅員工，如果染疫必須支付醫療費用，甚至還必須賠錢。
threaten(v.)威脅;揚言penalty(n.)懲罰、處罰、罰金、罰款be or get infected with…染上…
It is reported that both ASE and SPIL use a swipe card system to enforce dormitory lockdowns.
據報導，日月光和矽品都使用刷卡系統強制員工必須待在宿舍。
It is reported that…據報導…a swipe card system刷卡系統enforce(v.)執行=carry out
A Filipina employee of ASE claimed workers there had also been ordered to return to their dorms within an hour after their shifts and are monitored by swipe cards.
在日月光工作的菲律賓籍女工說，廠內工作的移工被命令須在輪班後一小時內返回宿舍，並以刷卡監控。
shift(n.)輪班monitor(v.)監控
Failure to comply would result in a “major demerit,” she said, adding that employees were also banned from brushing their teeth during 12-hour shifts.
她說，不遵守規定會被「記大過」，也提到員工也被禁止在12小時輪班期間刷牙。
failure(n.)失敗;未能做到…comply(v.)遵守(規定)demerit(n.)(尤指學校給學生的)記過merit(n.)優點;記功be banned from…被禁止…=be prohibited from…
These unfair labor practices have drawn accusations of discrimination against Southeast Asian migrant workers.
這些不當勞動行為被批根本是在歧視東南亞移工。
unfair labor practices不當勞動行為draw-drew-drawn引起;招致accusation(n.)discrimination(n.)歧視racial discrimination種族歧視=racism
Lennon Ying-dah Wong, the director of migrant worker policies at the Taoyuan labor organization Serve the People Association, said the decision to force the migrant workers to stay at their dorms was very questionable.
桃園市群眾服務協會移工服務暨庇護中心主任汪英達表示，強制移工待在宿舍的做法很有問題。
questionable(adj.)有疑問的;不確定的=controversial
“The COVID-19 virus won’t be controlled merely by locking the migrant workers inside the factory,” Wong said.
「只把移工關在工廠裡面，是沒辦法防疫的。」
“It’s totally unfair and unjustifiable to continue this double standard for migrant and Taiwanese workers in the factory.”
「對工廠裡的移工和台灣籍勞工實行雙重標準一點也不公平，也毫無道理。」
unjustifiable(adj.)令人無法接受的=unacceptable=unreasonable