Workplace reviews and discussion: 台北流行廣播股份有限公司
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The office atmosphere is generally quite casual and relaxed.
There is no overtime pay, but employees are often required to work overtime. To avoid labor inspections, employees are required to swipe their access cards during regular working hours (and then return to work), so that no overtime records are left, yet no overtime pay or compensatory leave is provided. Regardless of whether they work overtime, employees who forget to swipe their cards during regular working hours will receive a negative record in their attendance and performance evaluations. In other words, if you stay late to work overtime, not only do you receive no overtime pay, but your performance evaluation may also be penalized.
Labor-management meetings do not seem to be held regularly. However, as I recall, the Labor Standards Act stipulates that the minutes of every labor-management meeting must be submitted to the labor bureau. This suggests that there may be falsified labor-management meeting minutes, or erroneous information claiming that both labor and management agreed not to hold meetings.
It has the same owner as Hit FM, and job responsibilities are not clearly divided, so staff are used interchangeably. The limited benefits, however, are calculated separately, which feels quite unfair.
Finally, the radio station’s starting salaries are quite low. For this radio group, most entry-level employees at the Taipei station earn no more than NT$30,000, and some are offered as little as NT$26,000.