I know a guy, architect, how actually is in charge of his clan’s (family) properties. They have regular yearly meetings to decide what to do with them.
Buying a page in a few newspapers to apologize. Makes it more expensive.
Courts can no longer make someone apologize publicly because of the rash of KMT lawsuits against journalists threatening them with financial ruin if they don’t issue a public apology. The high court judge told the plaintiff in my case she’d have to go to the supreme court if she continued to insist on such an apology.
Thanks. I agree, society as a whole will benefit from these cases. My interpreter said there are numerous foreign teachers like me fighting in the labor courts for their rights, often for statutory rights such as pension contributions if a foreigner is married to a Taiwanese citizen. No judge is going to rule against a foreign worker making such a claim, the law is so clear, the facts so easy to establish, making the labor court, in effect, a cash register for married foreign workers to collect from. My present employers are flouting this law too, and, nice as they are, I will sue them when I leave for the full amount due.
My wife’s family have regular meetings where they argue and decide to do nothing with theirs.
Could you save future time and grief by asking your current employers politely to comply with the law?
Guy
He will suffer retribution directly then. Ask me how I know?
I have already looked them in the eye and told them, but they have chosen to ignore the law.
Good 4 u for clearly giving them the option. Now they have only themselves to blame (of coursethey wont, but…too bad for them if courts are really ruling in favor of pension claims for those with TW spouses.)
I found out what the 20k was for that I have to pay. It was for breaking the clause in my contract re absenteeism by not giving 5 hours notice I would not teach a class (how could I? I didn’t know I was going to quit that day.) The court reduced the 100k penalty in the clause to 20k because that is more “appropriate”.
You decide how appropriate that is for a 2-hour class that wasn’t cancelled and was taught by a fully-qualified teacher with 6 years plus experience. I feel the judges have forgotten that the numbers they spit out are real sums for whoever has to pay them.
The instructive part for any of you feeling like quitting is that if your employer makes no effort to retain you the court can rule they abandoned the contract, and you’re not liable for any losses incurred after you communicated your intention to quit. That’s very important because no legal argument made later can overcome that fact. It was on this basis that the court threw out most of her claim.
So they suffered zero loss but you have to pay 20k. Crazy.
100k penalty for missing a class is nuts.
On the plus side it’s her own money I will pay her with.
I don’t see how a Taiwan court battle has anything to do with the US.
It has nothing to do with the US.
Guy
The quote says it’s a blow for US? What?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Guy
Blow for us(you and I). Guessing his autocorrect changed it to uppercase.
It’s face saving payment. The court didn’t want to be accused of favouritism. You had to give something to get what you were owed. Fair isn’t it.
The two lawsuits were heard separately. But reducing 100k the district court ordered me to pay to 20k is not so bad.
You are still paying an illegal penalty.
Was it by the same judge?