Workplace reviews and discussion: 迦勒廣告事業有限公司

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I. Violations of the Labor Standards Act

1. Working hours are 8:00–18:00, with scheduled lunch break from 12:00–13:00, for a total of 9 working hours. There is no overtime pay, and working more than 9 hours also does not qualify for overtime pay.

2. Clocking in at 8:00 is considered late. Being late by up to 30 minutes results in a NT$300 deduction; arriving after 8:30 is considered half a day of absence without leave. If you happen to have annual leave remaining, it will automatically be used to offset the absence. Absence without leave results in double-pay deductions, meaning you effectively work for nothing for the entire day.

3. The company has more than five employees but has not established a labor and health insurance unit in accordance with the Labor Standards Act, instead enrolling employees only through a trade union.

4. Employees’ salaries are all above the minimum wage, but the boss is only willing to insure them at the minimum wage for labor and health insurance purposes. There is no labor pension contribution because the boss does not want to spend more money.

5. The Labor Standards Act stipulates that, apart from leave deductions and employees’ self-paid portions of labor and health insurance, base salary may not be deducted. However, the boss uses many pretexts to make salary deductions, leaving some employees with only a little over NT$10,000 per month. To survive, they can only work delivery jobs after hours and on days off to earn extra money.

II. Illegal conduct

1. The boss asks employees to provide the bank account details and ID numbers of the employees themselves and their relatives and friends, then uses this information to pretend to be property owners when signing contracts with construction and property-sales companies. The boss deceives and misleads employees into believing that doing so will not result in legal liability, but if this is later investigated, they are highly likely to be prosecuted and charged with fraud.

III. The boss is very stingy

1. Four years after establishing the company, the boss paid NT$4 million in full for a car; bought four houses and an office on Zhongxiao East Road, with real estate assets reportedly worth up to NT$100 million, yet complains to employees that he is paying too much in wages and is not making any money, asking whether he should pay them less.

2. Job listings on 104 and 1111 claim that there are employee trips, but in reality there are none. I heard that there has only been one in the six years since the company was established.