Workplace reviews and discussion: 嘉聯益科技股份有限公司

Come here to make friends

Broaden your horizons and plan your life

Treat this place as a temporary resting stop

That way, you won’t feel as bad about the job

There are many problems faced when coming here to work.

1. Most workers at the Guanyin plant have been forced to sign transfer forms, but the company imposed a mandatory requirement that they sign them, without making any prior announcement to the Guanyin plant.

2. Most information at the Guanyin plant is blocked, causing widespread panic. Workers under severe financial pressure are at a loss and can only take things one day at a time. Management has not arranged any relevant channels for job transfers.

3. The Guanyin plant has carried out layoffs three times, none of which complied with the relevant statutory provisions. Failing to take workers’ financial circumstances into consideration violates labor principles and is completely unethical. The layoffs before the Lunar New Year made the affected employees unable to enjoy the New Year.

4. Deceptive tactics were used. At the end of December, employees were initially notified to attend daytime educational training, but they were not informed in advance that they would be asked to sign documents. This left workers unable to think things through or negotiate with management. Employees were pressured by being given a red notice in one hand and a transfer form in the other. Only the next day did HR hold an information session, notifying employees that they could receive involuntary-separation benefits if they resigned that night, thereby inducing them to sign. In January, no relevant notice was given that the educational training would be stopped and layoffs carried out.

The above describes what happened at the Guanyin plant. It is truly infuriating. If the company cannot operate properly, yet also refuses to make arrangements for its employees, it is completely unethical.

Regarding employees transferred from the Shulin plant to the Taoyuan Technology Industrial Park plant: workers who rented housing away from home did so because they trusted the company’s assurances that operations would definitely move to Taoyuan Technology Industrial Park, so they rented in Guanyin instead of continuing to live in Shulin. However, when problems arose due to the poor operation of the Taoyuan Technology Industrial Park plant, management also failed to treat workers properly. Before the Lunar New Year, it expelled workers and forcibly terminated the accommodation of employees living in company dormitories, making it extremely difficult for them to find housing at short notice. This was truly unethical.

Workers at the Shulin plant already had low wages. Pay increases have been limited in recent years, so they could only rely on overtime to earn more. All of this was earned through their blood and sweat.

Those who really plan to come work here should be alert to the current situation and avoid being deceived. The company’s operating condition can be inferred from its current listed share price. Although the situation portrayed in the news may seem so crude, the company made money in 2018, yet the layoffs in February 2019 resulted only in a fine of NT$100,000–500,000 for taking an illegal route. This is truly unreasonable. It encourages other companies to follow suit: unscrupulous companies cannot receive proportionate punishment, leaving more workers to sell their labor and work themselves to the bone.