Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3197 Serving the People

Since last year, Fantuan has been involved in a series of negative news.

There are all kinds.

For example, in the takeaway business, merchants are required to choose between two options. If a merchant is found to provide services to Fantuan while also providing services to its competitors, Fantuan will downgrade the merchant. The lower the ranking, the lower the exposure, and the easier it is to make money.

However, compared with these negative business news, laying off pregnant female employees is too ugly.

Zhou Buqi couldn't bear to watch it, and Ning Yaxian and Sun Wanran beside him also felt that this was too bad.

It's simply trampling on human nature.

Wang Xing cleared his throat and said, "I need to explain this. First of all, I have to admit that I was indeed fired. She was very dissatisfied with this and went to an arbitration agency. After mediation by the relevant agency, she has returned to work as usual and has received the full salary for the month during the hiatus."

Zhang Yinlei said: "I have also seen all kinds of opinions on the Internet, and they are basically nonsense. Firing a pregnant female employee is something that even a decent company would not do! No matter how wildly Fantuan has grown and how poorly it has been managed, such a thing would not happen."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi became curious, "What's going on?"

Wang Xing said: "In fact, she is not an ordinary female employee. She is an important mid-level manager and a media director... which is equivalent to a public relations director. She reports directly to the chief operating officer and holds real power."

"PR Director?"

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

Wang Xing said aggrievedly, "Yes, she is responsible for the public relations business. In the past year, the company has had a lot of negative news, but it was not handled very well. There are rumors everywhere, and there are a lot of fabricated rumors. I was not satisfied with this business, so I asked to adjust several important persons in charge in the public relations department. She is the director, she has to take responsibility, and her power was reduced, and a lot of the business in her hands was taken away, but she couldn't accept it and began to disobey management."

"So you were fired?"

Zhou Buqi can understand the troubles that Fantuan.com is facing now, because he has participated in the establishment of many companies and has a lot of experience.

If it is a mature company with stability in all aspects, this is actually easy to deal with.

If you encounter some employees who are upset and disobey management, you can talk to them through senior management and HR, communicate with them slowly, help them with psychological counseling, and face and solve problems together. There is no need to be too anxious, as long as they don't overturn the table and make a scene, it can basically be handled well.

But it is different for a company that is in the start-up and rapid growth stage.

There simply isn't that much time.

The business is developing so fast and the performance pressure is so great that everyone is busy and overwhelmed. Everyone's time is precious and no one will spare the precious time to contribute to you... If you are in a bad mood or throwing a tantrum, then cut the Gordian knot and lay you off directly!

If you don't want to do it, then find someone who is willing to do it!

This is where the cruel side comes in.

The company seems impersonal.

The domestic Internet industry has developed rapidly in recent years and is far from reaching a bottleneck period. All tracks in the industry are still in a period of rapid growth. Even at the level of Ziweixing and Alibaba, they are still growing at an incredible speed.

When encountering this kind of thing, the routine is basically similar.

I really don't have that much time to talk to you.

HR is not enough to recruit new employees, so how can we allocate HR to provide psychological and spiritual counseling to people with value or emotional problems? It is even more impossible for business leaders, who are all professionals with technical backgrounds. They don’t have the ability to provide psychological counseling.

This has led to the entire Internet industry seeming cold and heartless, with a kind of coldness and cruelty that turns its back on people.

Wang Xing said: "This incident caused quite a stir. The company wrote an article to explain the situation. After she was reinstated, she also wrote an apology letter, saying that she was also at fault."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "When you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head, right?"

Wang Xing said bitterly, "No, it's really her fault! The explanation she gave was that a woman's mood changes a lot after she gets pregnant. The emotional instability caused her to lose balance after her job was adjusted. She thought it was pregnancy discrimination in the workplace." Zhang Yinlei added, "But in fact, we didn't even know she was pregnant at the time. We adjusted her job only because Fantuan.com encountered a series of negative news and the company's public relations team handled it improperly. She should be held responsible."

Wang Xing said: "But the adjustment of work caused her to misunderstand."

The two of us were like singing a duet, you say something and I say something.

This time it was Zhang Yinlei's turn again. He said helplessly: "After the job adjustment, her work enthusiasm was completely gone. She was passive and refused to work overtime. Her personal refusal to work overtime also caused her team to stop working overtime. You know, the company is now surrounded by negative news, and the public relations department is the busiest department."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Then he was fired."

Wang Xing said, "Well, she has already affected the team. Originally, the company valued her very much, and she was less than 30 years old. But her series of behaviors have turned her into a negative asset. The report was sent to me, and I approved it and fired her. Unexpectedly, after the dismissal report was sent, she made even more trouble, saying that she was more than four months pregnant. She was only pregnant for more than four months, and no one could tell unless she said it."

This matter suddenly became complicated.

Because the country has laws that prohibit the dismissal of pregnant female employees.

This is a measure to protect women's reproductive rights.

But the reality is so complicated.

This was originally intended to prevent capitalists from being too cruel and firing pregnant female employees whose working abilities have weakened. However, it has become a tool used by many women to bully them. After all, you are not allowed to fire a woman during pregnancy. If you dare to fire her, you will be sued for arbitration. This means that as long as you are pregnant, you are lawless.

In fact, the statutory maternity leave is only 3 months.

In a company, the proportion of pregnant female employees is always small, so this extra expense is not a big deal and is generally affordable. The only thing is that some people may go too far and take advantage of the mandatory nature of legal provisions and use pregnancy strategies to do whatever they want.

After all, China is different from some European and American countries. In China, when a female employee becomes pregnant, the company needs to bear the expenses during the pregnancy. In European and American countries, women do not work during pregnancy and do not create value for the company, so the company does not have to pay them. All salaries and benefits during pregnancy are borne by the state.

Many small bosses, with small companies and little profits, simply cannot handle the tough guys. For example, a female employee gets pregnant right after joining the company. She just slacks off every day, does nothing, and has no work output. You have to support her for 10 months, and she also has 3 months of maternity leave after giving birth.

You can only be dismissed after you finish your maternity leave.

It's like taking a year's salary for nothing.

Some small companies cannot afford to maintain the business, and the bosses don't want to suffer the humiliation, so they simply cancel the company.

A large company like Fantuan is helpless when faced with such a situation.

No matter what the reason is, if she is pregnant, she is a “get out of jail free card”. No matter what she has done, she cannot be fired. Not only can she not be fired, but her salary cannot be reduced either.

Zhou Buqi frowned. "So after you fired her, she sought arbitration and it was determined that the dismissal procedure was illegal, so she returned to the company?"

"Correct."

"Can this still be a good relationship?"

"It's OK. She seems to have calmed down and is in a stable mood. She even wrote an internal open letter to explain the incident."

Wang Xing was in full charge of the matter. After all, it was a big deal. He specifically talked to her twice, and the effect was pretty good. The labor and management did not turn the table because of the differences in arbitration and the negative public opinion from the outside world.

After all, they are all smart people and will make the most advantageous choice instead of acting rashly and impulsively.

"No matter what, we still have to treat employees well, especially female employees, and show warmth in management. I'm not worried about anything else, but I'm afraid that Fantuan will bring the barbaric style of fighting and charging in the market to the management of the company." Zhou Buqi said earnestly, "You are still in the start-up phase and are still pursuing a greater goal. You may not feel it. In ten or twenty years, you may understand that the greatest goal is actually people and serving the people."

When Wang Xing heard this, he almost laughed out loud.

I think the boss is really funny.

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Introduce some preferential measures for female employees, especially maternity leave. It cannot be in accordance with national standards. There must be longer paid maternity leave, and the company must have human warmth. Fantuan gives me the feeling of being cold, even colder than this winter!"