Workplace reviews and discussion: 棨楊餐飲股份有限公司

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1. During my employment, I never received any of the bonuses mentioned on the job posting. However, on the day I was paid, I was told that the cleaning had not been thorough enough, and several thousand dollars were deducted from my pay that month. I had to sign a payslip before receiving cash, but afterward the payslip disappeared.

2. Work started at 9 a.m., with no fixed end time. Cleaning began after the coffee class ended; for evening shifts, cleaning might not start until after the students finished class at 7:30 p.m. and had their questions answered. However, any work hours beyond the scheduled end time were never counted.

3. When there were large shipments, incoming deliveries, or inventory counts, time spent at the company after 11 p.m. was still not counted as working hours.

4. The employer claimed that service-industry jobs should not have a two-day weekend, and that having every other weekend off was already very conscientious of them.

5. There were surveillance cameras in every corner. Whenever someone was spotted sitting down to rest, the owner and the owner's spouse would call—even when they were not at the company—and tell you to make good use of your time at the company.

6. You had to sign an employment contract to work there, but only the owner kept a paper copy; employees were never allowed to retain one. Even if you insisted, you would only receive a blank version without a company stamp. Only when the Labor Bureau conducted an inspection would you discover that the salary stated in the employer's contract was NT$25,000, the same as the insured salary, but certainly different from the salary that had been negotiated.

7. You could not take leave due to menstrual pain. You would be assigned to move goods or buy lunch for the owner's family. As soon as you reported being pregnant, you would immediately be told that the employment contract was invalid and that you should pack up and leave.

8. After resigning, you would never receive notification about your final month's salary; you had to keep following up yourself.

9. When the Labor Bureau required a labor inspection, you might be asked to sign the rest periods on behalf of employees who had just resigned.

10. Every mistake, no matter how serious, was attributed to the employee's personal actions. The owner was always supposedly unaware and innocent; they had absolutely not instructed anyone to do it, and the relevant audio or video records supposedly did not exist.