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Read the community guidelines1. Before you refuse to sign an employment contract that violates the Labor Standards Act or submit your resignation, the boss will speak to you very pleasantly!
2. I originally only had a vague understanding of the Labor Standards Act, but after joining the company, I became extremely familiar with it in order to fight for my own rights!
1. The company violates the Labor Standards Act by requiring employees to sign illegal clauses in the employment contract, such as “voluntarily waiving overtime pay” and “submitting resignation 30 working days in advance,” regardless of length of employment.
2. Regarding the employment contract mentioned above, I personally believe that the company deliberately waited until the last day of the first month of the probationary period (the offer letter stated that it would be provided to employees during the first month) before giving it to the employee.
3. The position advertised was Marketing and Graphic Design, but almost all the work was actually that of a sales assistant. The company originally promised that it would continue recruiting a sales assistant, but later quietly removed the job advertisement.
4. The sales-assistant work mentioned above often involved moving heavy objects. Based on my personal experience, without core-muscle training, this resulted in inflammation of my tailbone.
5. Although the number of employees listed on 104 was three, in reality there was only the boss himself and two investors whom I had barely ever seen (I saw one of them once, when they came into the office carrying an “empty” folder).
6. After coordinating with the company and unsuccessfully requesting changes to the employment-contract provisions that violated the Labor Standards Act, I submitted my resignation but was treated with hostility and an extremely poor attitude.
7. During the interview, I was told that there might be activities on Saturdays and Sundays, but the company used compensatory leave instead of paying overtime. I accepted this. However, after joining, I discovered that there was no overtime pay even for overtime on weekdays. After I raised the issue, the company said that it had never said weekday overtime could not be compensated with time off, and told me to find and fill out a compensatory-leave form online myself.
◎Regarding the above accusations, the company’s response (well, I personally believe the company was really just the boss) was:
Point 1: “The employment contract was written by the company’s lawyer! I feel very uncomfortable with you constantly saying that the employment contract is illegal!” (Then repeated this endlessly.)
Point 2: Pretended not to hear it.
Point 3: When I asked the company afterward, it replied: “Posting on 104 costs money. We haven’t finished recruiting yet, so we’ll post it again later.”
Point 4: A sour expression and no response.
Point 6: I proposed resigning two weeks later so that the company would have time to recruit someone and arrange a handover.
The boss said: “There’s absolutely no way we can recruit someone in two weeks. I’ll only let you leave earlier, not later!”
Me: “Do you mean that I won’t know when I’m leaving because you get to decide?”
Boss: “What do you want?”
Me: “I want to know the exact date.”
Boss: “Do I have to tell you?” (Along with an extremely smug smile ^^)
Point 7: Regarding the fact that weekday overtime pay had not been mentioned during the interview, the company said: “You just didn’t hear it, right?”
In the end, the reason I was able to resign successfully and receive half a month’s worth of overtime pay was that I told the company I would ask a mediation committee of the Bureau of Labor Insurance to intervene. Only then was I more or less able to leave successfully and receive the overtime pay (for half a month).
There were actually many other issues, such as problems with the deductions for labor and health insurance premiums and the failure to enroll my family members in health insurance under my name, but I’m tired of writing.
Finally, brave souls are still welcome to join this company. Don’t let my experience influence you too much—after all, this is just my personal experience ^^!