Workplace reviews and discussion: 華娛國際股份有限公司

The boss is very well-known on the “靠北影視” forum, and the film *Who Killed Cock Robin* is also very famous. It is a notorious scam group.

1. In the past, while operating companies, she failed to pay employees’ wages and labor and health insurance premiums. After employees provided evidence, the Labor Bureau fined her. To avoid being fined again, the original companies (Huayu Film Company, Oz Cultural and Creative, and Walker Cosmetics) were no longer used. Later, in order to continue operating, she found someone else to serve as the registered person in charge and reopened under the current name, Dreamwalk Café. (That is why it was described above as her “former” position as the person in charge.)

2. Since the company began operating, she repeatedly claimed that she had insured the café employees and “withheld the employees’ self-paid labor insurance contributions” on their behalf. In reality, no insurance had been taken out at all. Several employees only discovered after leaving their jobs that the more than NT$200 in labor insurance contributions deducted from their hard-earned wages had never reached the relevant government agencies, and they did not know where the money had gone. Chen Yu-shan later even claimed that the employees were insured and that the employee who contacted the Labor Insurance Bureau had made a mistake. She also failed to provide employees with appropriate leave or reasonable wages, seriously violating the Labor Standards Act.

3. In the past, she accumulated unpaid bills to produce suppliers, seafood suppliers, grocery suppliers, chocolate suppliers, and others. She even required the store manager and deputy manager to negotiate so that supplies could continue, allowing the café to keep operating, while the bills remained overdue. The suppliers all threatened to sue.

When suppliers asked employees for her contact information, she told the employees that disclosing it would violate personal-data privacy rules and was not permitted. Alternatively, she told suppliers that she was not the person in charge but merely the accountant and could not handle the matter. Even more outrageously, she told suppliers to ask the employees to pay the outstanding bills.

4. She recruited a full-time kitchen assistant and promised a salary of NT$28,000, but ultimately paid only NT$140 per hour. Most seriously, the pay slip stated an hourly wage of NT$140, while the actual wage paid was NT$133 per hour. Chen Yu-shan ultimately claimed that she had forgotten what terms had originally been agreed upon, so the kitchen assistant resigned in anger.

5. She often asked employees to make transfers, pay by card, and advance various expenses on her behalf. Seeing that she had piled up huge debts, employees initially helped advance expenses for distributing promotional flyers, the photocopier, and other items. Later, when employees left and asked her to reimburse the amounts advanced to suppliers, she actually replied that the employees had volunteered to advance the money and that she did not need to repay them. Absolutely unbelievable.

6. Employees helped apply for government subsidies, but none of the IDs she provided was correct. Someone from the Ministry of Culture even posted on the “靠北影視” forum in agreement with the complaints.

7. She claimed that she was going to shoot a film and asked a female part-time café employee to rent a car for her production team. She said the car would be rented for three days, but later rented it for two weeks and ultimately paid not a penny of the rental fee. She left the rental company’s bill unpaid for nearly a year. The situation became so serious that the younger sister of the part-time employee, who had already left the job months earlier, received a certified letter from the rental company and was sued. After learning about it, she said she would handle the matter, but continued to ignore it. In the end, the employee’s sister had no choice but to bring the rental company to the café to find Chen Yu-X. Chen, the owner, ultimately dealt with the situation by calling the police to arrest the rental-company personnel. The rental company left angrily and prepared to pursue litigation.

8. At the beginning of Dreamwalk Café’s establishment, it lent its premises as the flower-shop set for the film *The Love of Aurora*. After filming, it commissioned the film art team (Central Motion Picture Corporation) to carry out additional design and renovation work in the café. After the work was completed, however, she failed to pay more than NT$100,000 and disappeared for a long time. Even after the other party took legal action and obtained a certified letter and a payment order, it still could not recover the full amount.

9. For profit, she opened a special-effects makeup course, but did not hold the course or issue refunds. A student’s mother even came to the café to demand repayment. The dispute nearly went to court and even resulted in the special-effects makeup artist’s bank account being frozen.

10. When establishing a company, she also misappropriated the name of the well-known industry company Oz Art, causing confusion. Oz Art clarified the matter on its official website, but afterward she continued to act as though it did not matter.

11. The most famous incident was the dispute involving the film *Who Killed Cock Robin*. Claiming to be the screenwriter, she pretended to be a victim who had been tricked into signing an authorization letter and incited netizens. In reality, she did not pay the screenwriter’s fees. Not only did she fail to pay the screenwriters she had previously hired, she later recruited the unfortunate Cheng Wei-hao as director and screenwriter and continued asking him to write for her. We later learned that she also asked Cheng Wei-hao to make the animation and edit the trailer. In the end, after seeing the other person’s film released, she stirred up the media and the internet, went to the police station to file a baseless lawsuit, and sued him. The case was dismissed without prosecution soon afterward. Fortunately, Director Cheng then countersued her for false accusation and defamation.

12. The companies under her name, including the café, never directly told employees that they were being laid off. Instead, they claimed that employees had resigned voluntarily and therefore did not pay severance, nor did they pay the employees’ base wages for that month. The angry employees reported her to the Labor Bureau. When the Labor Insurance Bureau held a mediation meeting, she did not attend in person. She ultimately sent only one representative, who provided two tickets—two checks. In the end, the employee received payment for only one of them, because the other was what is commonly called a bad check. The employees were truly pitiful.

According to statements from several former café employees over the years, suppliers, gangsters, police officers, and creditors involved in various disputes would periodically come to the store. Chen X-shan herself did everything possible to avoid seeing them, leaving employees and customers severely disturbed.

Chen X-shan (formerly Chen Yu-X) is skilled at abusing the freedoms granted by the internet and the law to spread false rumors and file vexatious lawsuits. However, she herself has faced multiple cases involving alleged fraud, infringement, and false accusations, and was even wanted after repeatedly failing to appear in court. We believe that those who repeatedly do wrong will eventually suffer the consequences. There may be many more victims, but we hope to prevent more people from being harmed as we were.