品源鑫科技有限公司

1. The company’s bonuses include an employee birthday gift of NT$500 (which you have to ask for yourself), a NT$1,000 start-of-work red envelope, a NT$1,000 Labor Day red envelope, a NT$1,000 Dragon Boat Festival bonus, and a NT$1,000 Mid-Autumn Festival red envelope.

2. There is almost no need to work overtime.

1. The company is harsh toward employees, requiring them to work without turning on the lights or air conditioning, deducting NT$1,000 for being one minute late, and so on.

2. It lacks integrity. The boss repeatedly delays things they have promised to do and will not fulfill them even after being urged again and again, because they do not take these matters seriously—whether the promises concern work or employee benefits.

3. It does not comply with the law, engaging in practices such as underreporting salaries, failing to pay labor pension contributions, making salary deductions under contrived names, and imposing fines without review by the competent authority. The boss has even made blatantly illegal and irrational statements such as “If you don’t pass the certification, your salary will be deducted” or “If you can’t finish the work, stay and work overtime; I won’t give you a cent of overtime pay.”

4. Its job-bank postings contain false information. Although there is no year-end bonus, the company claims there is one. Some senior employees who have worked there for decades have never received a year-end bonus. This practice of luring people in with false information is contemptible.

5. The company’s products do not provide consumers with adequate protection. It exploits legal loopholes by giving products to distributors for sale, even though they have not actually received safety approval. For example, its electric blankets have not passed the national CNS standard inspection and do not have BSMI certification. Some products are even sold by the boss as medical devices, despite not undergoing biocompatibility testing to save money. It is entirely possible that consumers will sue the company one day if its products cause problems.

6. The boss lacks the ability to manage a factory and does not understand what “scheduling” means. Work arrangements are extremely chaotic, as can be seen across all departments. As a result, overall work efficiency is not only low but also unreliable, increasing the risk of manufacturing inferior products and passing that risk on to consumers, while the risk of losses caused by poor planning is passed on to employees.

7. The company cuts costs wherever possible when it comes to equipment. It uses computers from more than a decade ago, all software is pirated, and sometimes there is no software at all, leaving employees to figure things out themselves.

8. The boss likes to hold “meetings” every week. Rather than meetings, they are collective lectures in which the boss berates employees to vent their emotions.