Several other Forumosans, I believe, some of whom got a shedload more than the less-than half-mil or so I did. This was in 1996 or thereabouts. The company used the yearly contract argument and the arbitrators (was it still the CLA in those days? I forget) told them to shut the fuck up and get their wallets out. It was nice. There were three of us and it ended up costing the company a fair whack of cash.
One of my colleagues had been long gone from Taiwan by the time the process was finished and he got his money in America just the same.
Someone make this a sticky. Just came in really handy for me. 
Hartzell explained to us the first step of a possible suit, which is to go to the post office and send a registered letter to the “defendant”.
A copy also needs to go to the NPA or national police administration if you are on an ARC and your legal status could be revoked by the defendant.
Another copy needs to stay at the post office and then the final copy is for you.
This letter basically is you saying this is what I think I’m owed – so you include your math calcualtions – and is the step before you would go to a court and file papers for a suit.
The process is fairly complicated, but I just finished and have sample copies from Hartzell so if you need more info or sample copies of the court papers you would need to file, pm me for them.
I’ll be on here sporadically, since internet access won’t be a daily thing for awhile, but I wil check in and get back to you!
Should be in writing. Email is fine. Verbal won’t be sufficient and just gets everything all messed up (i.e. he said, she said kind of thing).
I found much clearer information on this form you need in another thread called RANT by Loretta, and orignally posted by “Ironlady”.
I hope it is ok to repost it here:
[quote=“ironlady”]
“Post Office Registered Evidentiary Letters”
What is this?
In Chinese, 存鄭信函 cun2zheng4 xin4han2.
You go to the Post Office and ask for this kind of special paper (it sells for NT$0.5 per sheet, you’ll need everything in triplicate, so 3 sheets minimum – you get a cool NT$0.5 coin in change, so it’s worth it ).
You then write out your demands, something like:
Mr. X did thus-and-such to me, and I responded thus-and-such, and as Mr. X still refuses to thus-and-such, therefore, I send this letter to request officially that unless he does thus-and-such within period of time X, I will thus-and-such.
You get the idea. It’s the first step to a lawsuit. Generally you send 2 or 3 of these puppies registered mail (it’s cheap) before filing your suit. This demonstrates to the judge that you have sincerely tried to fix the problem before going to law with it.
The legal possibilities aside, Taiwanese tend to pay attention to these things, although some are quite surprised when a foreigner figures out how to trek through the legal system. (I’m now on Lesson Four: Filing Criminal Charges, and concurrently learning Lesson Five: Opposing Frivolous Appeals by Defeated Party.)[/quote]