What is the boss afraid to owe employees wages?Not to mention that Chinese private bosses dare to owe wages, even the private bosses of foreign companies dare to blatantly refuse to pay employees' wages.
A few years ago, I was forced to leave the Beijing office of a foreign company I worked for due to a strategic redirection and a downsizing of its business in China. When I changed jobs, I decided to work for a foreign company. The management of foreign enterprises is more standardized than that of private enterprises, and the benefits are more perfect. Therefore, I gave up many job opportunities in private enterprises and accepted an offer from a foreign company without hesitation. At that time, I was full of joy, but I jumped into the "trap".
The owner of the foreign company is a white South African national. Although South Africa is African, there are many whites. South Africa has a considerable number of descendants of European colonizers. In May 1910, Britain merged the Cape, Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State to form the Federation of South Africa as a British self-governing territory. On May 31, 1961, South Africa withdrew from the Commonwealth and formed the Republic of South Africa. Therefore, the current white people in South Africa are mainly descendants of former colonizers and European immigrants. The company's office address is in Beijing's most prosperous commercial Guomao area, a five-A office building, and almost 30% of the employees in the office are blonde foreigners, who look tall.
When I actually went to work, I found out that this company turned out to be "unique"!This company feels weird. White South African bosses often fly around abroad and rarely in Beijing offices. Here in Beijing, the general manager of the company is in charge, a woman in her forties. I heard that she started a company with her boss.
For a few months before I started work, my salary was paid normally. When I got to know the colleagues around me, I learned that many of the old employees were in arrears.
Three or four months. If you don't pay your salary, who is in the mood to work. A lot of people are obviously grinders. But what makes people angry is that the salaries of foreign employees are actually received on time.
I heard from my old colleagues: at first, it was a few days late, then it became half a month late, and then it slowly became a month late. Later, I went out of the ordinary to two or three months' salary, and I saved it up and paid it together. Listening to the words of the old employee, I felt my scalp tingle. 5A-level office building, superior office environment, colleagues with foreigners, fluent English ......I originally thought that I had entered a tall foreign company, but how could I jump into a company that was more "private" than a "private enterprise"?Will foreign companies still owe wages?
Gradually, the Chinese employees who were supposed to leave were leaving. The company only has some "old, young, sick and disabled" Chinese employees who are "holding their ground". These people who stay either have relatively high positions in the company and can get a salary of more than 30,000 yuan per month, and they can't find a better home when they leave this company;Either you don't have any ability, so you can only live here. It's strange that these people just complain passively, but they don't dare to do anything with foreign bosses.
The company is said to be a foreign company, but in fact it is a private enterprise set up by a gringo in China. The company's management depends on the boss's words, and the company's strategy is also the boss's head to say, as for when to pay wages and how much wages to pay, it depends on the boss's mood. Foreign bosses know that the remaining Chinese are not easy to find jobs, and the employment situation is grim, so stay in my temple, don't dislike the temple is small!That's why unpaid wages are so unscrupulous. When it comes to the reason for not paying wages, it is the slow payment of customers, project delays and other unrelated reasons.
The gringos dare to do this, let alone the Chinese bosses. Why don't employees dare to resist?Even if the boss sues the court and the boss loses the lawsuit, the result is that the boss pays the salary to the employee, but the employee's salary is in the hands of the boss, and he can still earn interest for a year!The boss feels that although the arrears of employees' wages are a bit immoral, it is a zero cost!
The boss is in arrears, what can the employees do?Let's go to labor arbitration, let's go, the boss looks like a monkey watching employees being kicked in all kinds of balls, and how many people give up halfway through arbitration because they can't afford it. Even if you win the arbitration, it is nothing more than giving you the money that should have been given to you, and for the boss, there is no loss at all. The boss just won't give it to you, and the employees can't do it!This kind of unbeneficial, thankless work, no one will help employees to perform.
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