The Hsinchu District Court on Tuesday ordered a ChipMOS manager, surnamed Chen (陳), to pay NT$50,000 (US$1,487) in damages to an assistant engineer for inflicting psychological trauma via verbal abuse.
The assistant engineer, surnamed Hou (侯), said he started working for ChipMOS in December 2006 in the equipment division, adding that his job description stated he was responsible for detecting anomalies in integrated circuits and maintaining testing equipment.
Hou said that Chen, his direct superior, forced him perform duties not in his job description, and often verbally and physically abused him if the job was not done to his standards, adding that Chen threatened him.
Hou said Chen told him to bypass actual testing when operating machinery conducting ultraviolet lithography because of a shortage of workers and just to fill out the records.
Hou said he refused, adding that it was a blatant disregard of company regulations.
Hou said his handling of the matter prompted Chen at a meeting on September 2014 to say: “His [Hou’s] head is full of shit.”
Hou said Chen had also asked him to manage foreign workers in the department.
Chen said that in a meeting on Dec. 30, 2014, Hou said: “You are going to pay for this,” after a piece of machinery failed because Chen said that the spring probe in the machine did not need to be cleaned.
Hou claimed that the constant verbal abuse caused him to develop heart palpitations, suffer from sleep disturbances, constant headaches and depression, adding that because of this he was unable to continue working at the company.
Hou said he was still undergoing treatment after leaving the company on Feb. 10 last year.
Hou sued Chen for NT$800,000 in compensation for nearly a year off work and another NT$1 million for psychological trauma.
Chen said his criticism of Hou was because he had great expectations of him.
Chen said that when the company first registered its stock and distributed warrants among its employees, he transferred 10,000 shares to Hou, adding that of the 60 company engineers, Hou was the only one to receive shares.
Chen said that Hou had even written him a thank-you letter and he could not understand how matters progressed to such levels.
Chen said his comments to Hou of “your mind is so dense it is useless,” and “his head really is full of shit,” were intended to mean that his mindset was inflexible, adding that he had simply used hyperbole in a vulgar fashion.
Chen added that he said in the meeting: “If you do things like this at another company, you would pay for it,” adding that it was meant to be encouraging, not derogatory.
However, the judge ruled Hou’s reputation was damaged by the incident and he was within his rights to ask for compensation.
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