Workplace reviews and discussion: 嘉南模型企業有限公司

During the interview, the manager calculates your living expenses and then decides that 25k is more than enough. Truly very shrewd.

During interviews, they always say they follow the Labor Standards Act, but in reality they don't—they follow their own rules.

During the interview, they said there would be 20 minutes of break time each day (10 minutes at 10 a.m. and 10 minutes at 3 p.m.), so on the third Saturday of every month, you have to make up the hours—okay~*

But once you start working, it becomes mandatory standby duty on Saturdays in the first, third, and fifth weeks, and depending on the situation, you may also be required to stay and cooperate with the company in the second and fourth weeks.

The most outrageous part is that Saturday overtime is not announced until before clocking out on Friday. This is a company that completely lacks anything resembling a schedule, as if they have no control over the progress of their cases.

They treat working Saturdays as normal. A five-day workweek seems to be something they grant you as charity. Did they give you 20 days of paid leave? Once, on the fourth Saturday (a scheduled day off), the work was clearly on schedule, and with the supervisor's approval, I took two days off. When I returned to work on Monday, the supervisor found that the foreign workers' progress had fallen behind and scolded me for taking those two days off. Excuse me—was the foreign workers' lagging progress my responsibility??

The company never reflects on its own scheduling problems. They have nothing to do on Friday but still make you come to work on Saturday, and then there is barely anything to do on Saturday either—but they stubbornly refuse to let you take the day off.

Once, I asked a senior colleague whether typhoon leave was available. The manager happened to walk by and brazenly said no, that we had to come to work, and that if the wind and rain were too severe to go out, it would be unpaid leave. One employee who lived farther away chose unpaid leave and was scolded the next day: “There was no wind or rain yesterday, so why didn't you come?” In fact, although there was no wind or rain that morning, strong winds and torrential rain began in the afternoon. Can the company afford to compensate employees if something happens to them? They deduct the money and still keep lecturing us 🙄️

When working, we use spray paint, acrylic paint, and degreaser, but they do not provide professional respirators—only ordinary activated-carbon masks. The entire work area has no ventilation, while the manager's office has an air purifier.

The overtime pay on the payslip is also incredibly unclear. If you want to see the details, you have to ask the manager. It is really different from ordinary companies: instead of calculating overtime separately at 1.33 and 1.66 times the rate, they give you one big, mixed-up lump sum.

After reading the other comments, it seems they were already like this three years ago. Clearly, they will not change. You can Google how many times this company has violated the Labor Standards Act....