Some mainland netizens broke the news that a certain advertising company was suspected of wanting to “painlessly lay off employees” and deliberately moved the company to a mountainous area. (Image/Pexels)
Many office workers give priority to commuting time when looking for a job. Recently, a mainland netizen published an article revealing that an advertising company in Xi’an deliberately relocated the company to a mountainous area in order to avoid paying severance pay and “painless layoffs.” This resulted in many employees’ commuting time being delayed. It was so long that some people even took 2 hours to commute one way. As a result, dozens of employees voluntarily resigned. But what they didn’t expect was that the company moved back to the city a few days later, leaving these employees dumbfounded on the spot.
According to a report by Upstream News, employees of this advertising company revealed that the company suddenly notified all employees that the office would be moved from the city to a local mountainous area. Not only did they have to clock in at 9 a.m., the company also clearly informed them Without any commuting subsidy, the employee said, “Colleagues without cars can only take a bus that runs every three hours, and have to walk 3 kilometers and more than 30 minutes on mountain village roads to get to the office. One-way commuting time is almost 2 hours. Hour”.
Because the commuting time was too long, 14 employees signed severance agreements. But to their surprise, just four days after signing, the company moved back to the city and even started recruiting new employees. This made them stunned. The resigned employee could not accept it and said angrily, “The boss of the company has never shown up. The purpose is to use this harsh environment to make you voluntarily resign. If this method is not used, everyone will be fired or otherwise, and they will ask for compensation normally.” .
According to reports, the person in charge of the company said in an interview that the reason for moving the office was because the rent in the urban area was expensive, the lease had just expired, and the new office had not yet been renovated, so the office was moved to a B&B run by the company. Only 1 week. In response, the resigned employees retorted that the company said at the time that they needed to work in mountainous areas for a long time. “If you only stay in the mountains for a week and then return to the new office, who can’t persist?”
In response to this incident, Fu Jian, director of Henan Zejin Law Firm, believes that in this case, employees must first determine whether there is an agreement on the workplace in the labor contract signed with the company. If there is an agreement in the contract, the company has not agreed with the company. If the laborers reach consensus to change the content of the contract, it is a violation of the contract. Employees can file a labor arbitration with the labor arbitration committee. In similar situations, employees have the right to request for rights protection.
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2024-01-05 12:00:00
