|
An airport in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province, fired nearly 100 employees in an attempt to dodge the new Labor Contract Law, which will come into effect starting on January 1, 2008.
Local website Rednet.cn reported on Tuesday that a netizen, claimed to be an air conditioner repair worker for Changsha Huanghua Airport, recently exposed the scheme on the Internet.
The netizen said he had worked for the airport for nine years. But earlier this month he was forced to sign his name to terminate the contract, otherwise, he would not even receive any compensation when the contract expires at the end of the year.
The netizen said a total of about 93 employees suffered from this unfair treatment, and most of them have worked for the airport for more than nine years, with the longest up to 26 years.
Under the new law, employees can sign open-ended labor contracts if they have worked for the same company for 10 or more consecutive years.
Zheng Sheping, a veteran driver who has been selected as a model worker many times, told Rednet.cn that compensation for terminating the contracts without prior notice was only half of that set by law. He also disclosed that the airport has never provided social insurances for them in the past.
The report said officials from the airport are tight-lipped concerning the issue.
Earlier, China's Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd had forced staff members who had worked for the company for eight consecutive years or more to accept the so-called voluntary resignation, and sign new contracts after competing for positions, but later the company dropped the scheme. |
|
