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Since last year, Fantuan has received a series of negative news.

There are all kinds.

For example, in the takeout business, merchants are required to "choose one of the two." If it is found that the merchant is also providing services to competitors while providing services to Fantuan, Fantuan will reduce its rights. The ranking is low, the exposure rate is low, and the difficulty of making money is reduced.

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

Zhou Buqi couldn't stand it, and Ning Yaxian and Sun Wanran around him also felt that this was too bad.

It's simply trampling on humanity.

Wang Xing coughed and said: "I need to explain this matter. First of all, I have to admit that the dismissal did happen. She was particularly dissatisfied because of this and went to the arbitration institution. After mediation by the relevant institution, she has been I returned to the company to work normally and made up for the salary during the intermission period.”

Zhang Yinlei said: "I have seen all kinds of claims on the Internet, and they are basically nonsense. No company can do such a thing to fire a pregnant female employee! No matter how barbaric Fantuan is, If the growth and management are not good, this kind of thing will not happen.”

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

Wang Xing said: "Actually, she is not an ordinary female employee. She is an important middle manager, the media director... equivalent to the public relations director. She will report directly to the chief operating officer and holds real power."

"Public Relations Director?"

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

Wang Xing said aggrievedly: "Yes, she is responsible for the public relations business. In the past year, there have been many negative news in the company, but they have not been handled well. There are rumors everywhere, and There were a lot of rumors. I was not satisfied with this business, so I asked for the adjustment of several important people in charge of the public relations department. She was the director, so she had to take responsibility, so she was reduced and many of her tasks were taken away. But she couldn’t accept it and began to disobey management.”

"So you fired me?"

Zhou Buqi can understand the troubles Fantuan.com is currently encountering because he has participated in the founding of many companies and has a lot of experience.

If it is a mature company and all aspects are stable, this is actually easier to handle.

If you encounter some employees who are upset and disobeying management, you can have a heart-to-heart talk with them through senior management and HR, communicate with them slowly, and provide them with psychological counseling so that we can face and solve problems together. There's no need to be too anxious, as long as you don't flip the table and cause trouble, it can basically be handled.

But a company in the start-up and rapid growth stages is different.

There simply isn't that much time.

The business is developing so fast and the performance pressure is so high. Everyone is extremely busy and everyone’s time is precious. No one will spare their precious time to contribute to you... If you get emotional and lose your temper, then Cut the mess quickly and cut it off!

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

This shows a very cruel side.

The company seems impersonal.

The domestic Internet industry has developed rapidly in recent years, and it is far from reaching the 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. Rapid growth.

When encountering this kind of thing, basically the same routine follows.

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

HR has been released to recruit new employees, but it is not enough. How can HR be allocated to provide some psychological and spiritual counseling to people with values ​​or emotional problems? It's even more impossible for business leaders. They are all professionals with technical backgrounds, and they don't have the ability to provide psychological counseling.

This makes the entire Internet industry seem indifferent and ruthless, with a kind of coldness and cruelty that turns against others.

Wang Xing said: "This incident was so big that the company wrote an article to explain it. After she rejoined the company, she also wrote a letter of apology, saying that she was also at fault."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "People are under the eaves, so they have to lower their heads?"

Wang Xing said bitterly: "It's not true, it's really her fault! The reason she gave was that a woman's mood will change greatly after pregnancy, and her emotional instability caused her to have an unbalanced mentality after her business 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 work just because Fantuan.com encountered continuous negative news. The company's public relations team mishandled the situation, and she has to take responsibility."

Wang Xing said: "The work adjustment caused her to misunderstand."

The two of them are like singing a double act, you say something and I say something else.

This time it was Zhang Yinlei's turn again. He said helplessly: "After adjusting her work, her enthusiasm for work was completely gone. She was passive and refused to work overtime. She personally refused to work overtime, which also caused her team to not work overtime. You know, the company is currently 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 affected the team. Originally, the company valued her quite a lot, and she was not yet 30 years old. But her series of behaviors have turned into negative equity. When the report came to me, I approved it. She was fired. Unexpectedly, after the dismissal report came down, she became even more upset and said that she was more than 4 months pregnant. No one could tell if she didn't tell her. "

This matter suddenly becomes complicated.

Because the country has legal provisions, pregnant female employees are not allowed to be fired.

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

But the reality is so complicated.

This was originally to prevent capitalists from being too evil and firing pregnant female employees whose work ability has weakened, but it turned out to be a tool used by many women to reverse bullying. Anyway, you are not allowed to be fired during pregnancy. If you dare to fire, go to arbitration and sue you. . This means that as long as you are pregnant, you will be lawless.

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

In a company, the proportion of pregnant female employees is always very small. This additional expense is not large and can generally be tolerated. I'm afraid that some people go too far, taking advantage of the coercion in legal provisions and relying on pregnancy strategies to become lawless.

After all, China is different from some countries in Europe and the United States. If a pregnant female employee is encountered in China, the cost of pregnancy needs to be borne by the company; in countries in Europe and the United States, women do not work during pregnancy and do not create value for the company, so the company does not need to To pay for it, all wages and benefits during pregnancy are borne by the state.

Many small bosses, with small companies and low profits, cannot handle it when they encounter ruthless people. For example, a female employee just joined the company and became pregnant after joining the company. She just fished and leisurely every day, doing nothing, and had no work output. You have to take care of her for 10 months, plus 3 months of maternity leave after giving birth.

You can't be fired until you finish your maternity leave.

It's like getting a year's salary in vain.

Some small companies can't afford it, and the small bosses don't want to suffer from this cowardice, so they cancel the company directly.

A big company like Fantuan is helpless when it comes to this kind of thing.

No matter what the reason is, if she is pregnant, it is a "gold medal to avoid death". No matter what she has done, she cannot be fired. Not only cannot they be fired, but their salaries cannot be reduced.

Zhou Buqi frowned, "So after you fired her, she went to arbitration and found that the dismissal procedure was illegal, and she returned to the company?"

"right."

"Can we still get along well with each other?"

"It's okay. She seems to have calmed down and is emotionally stable. She even wrote an internal open letter explaining the matter."

Wang Xing has full authority to handle this matter. After all, the matter is quite big. He came forward to talk to her twice, and the effect was not bad. There was no dispute between labor and management because of differences in arbitration and negative public opinion from the outside world. .

After all, they are all smart people and will make the most beneficial choice, rather than acting on impulse without thinking.

"No matter what, we still need to treat our employees well, especially female employees, and show warmth in management. I'm not worried about anything else. I'm just afraid that Fantuan will bring this brutal and aggressive style in the market to the company. Zhou Buqi said earnestly, "You are still in the entrepreneurial stage and are still chasing a greater goal. You may not realize it in ten or twenty years. , In fact, we are still human beings and serve the people.”

When Wang Xing heard this, he almost laughed.

I think the big boss is really funny.

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Several preferential treatment measures for female employees have been introduced, especially maternity leave. It cannot be based on national standards. There must be longer paid maternity leave and a humane atmosphere in the company. Rice balls are now giving My feeling is that it’s cold, even colder than this winter!”