After all, how can a company misbehave with its employees? And for what reasons? These questions came into discussion when an employee of a Chinese company was kept locked in a small dark room for four days. And the reason for this was only that the company wanted the employee to resign. The interesting thing is that the matter was revealed not by the employee but by the company itself.
In this labour dispute, a company named Guangzhou Duoyi Network Co. Ltd. locked one of its employees in a “small dark room” for four days to force him to resign. The matter came to light when the company challenged a court ruling on the case. The firm published the full court documents on its official Weibo account, openly disagreeing with the ruling given in May by a district-level court in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.
The court decided that Guangzhou Duoyi Network’s subsidiary in Sichuan should pay 380,000 yuan (Rs 43 lakh 60 thousand) to employee Liu Linzhu as compensation for his actions. According to the South China Morning Post, the story came to light when Liu found that he could not log in to the company’s computer system or use his entry pass.
The company says that Liu has violated office rules. (Symbolic picture: Canva)
This came after lengthy negotiations over his resignation. The firm told Liu he was required to attend “training” and was taken to a room on a different floor that was dark and had no electricity. In the four days Liu was allowed to leave the room, including going home after “work”, he was not given any work and his mobile phone was confiscated.
After this, when Liu’s wife reported the company’s treatment of her husband to the police, an official notice of dismissal was issued to him. The company insisted that the layoff was done because Liu had violated the company’s policies. Many experts and people have also expressed their displeasure by criticizing the company on social media.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 12, 2024, 12:55 IST