Chapter 17.1 “Your new assistant? Has she passed the judicial examination?”

Song Lianjun also finally reacted at this time, and he could barely resist rushing to Ji Lin, “How could you do this? How could you?” He looked at the personnel director with wide teary eyes, “General Manager Xu, during all these years of ups and downs, when did Simon Paper not rely on us, old employees, to carry it down together? And now you’re treating us like this?”

“Lao¹老 (Lao)-prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity Song, don’t be like this, I’m just doing things according to the rules…”

Song Lianjun’s emotions were completely out of control, after pulling the collar of the personnel director, he rushed to Du Xinyi, “Lawyer Du? Didn’t you say to me that this case was a sure win? Now what? What’s the situation now!”

Du Xinyi was shocked and habitually took a step back. She avoided Song Lianjun in disgust and tried to calm down, “Isn’t this proposal quite good? Didn’t you complain to me that it was difficult to find a job at your age? Now that the company has shut down production, they are still willing to support and pay you without letting you work, isn’t that quite good? Isn’t this the same as you lying at home and counting your money?”

Du Xinyi really has no idea about the actual life of workers.

Bai Duanduan gave her a look, “At this time, don’t talk coldly. Can these older employees support their families with 2,480 yuan a month? Are they thinking about making such a small amount of money lying down? What they want is not money, but job opportunities! It is an opportunity to get a normal salary!”

Song Lianjun almost collapsed, his lips trembling as he said, “I just bought a house and have a mortgage of 4,000 a month. With this salary of less than 2,500 a month, I can’t even afford to pay the mortgage ……”

Bai Duanduan rubbed her brow and frowned at Ji Lin, “This method of yours is really too chickenshit.”

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Ji Lin glanced at Du Xinyi, and then looked at Bai Duanduan, “Your new assistant? Has she passed the judicial examination?”

Du Xinyi had never faced such humiliation before, and her face turned red, “You!”

In front of the big enemy, Bai Duanduan didn’t have time to manage Du Xinyi’s small manipulations that couldn’t be staged, but Ji Lin couldn’t stand it. 

“No one taught you that when lawyers in charge are speaking, assistants shouldn’t interrupt?” Ji Lin curled up his lip indifferently, “Simon Paper’s senior management did consider relocating the three production lines as a whole, but the general manager of the China headquarters has been trying to maneuver, hoping to still keep the three production lines in China as much as possible, to get through this difficult period and eventually restart. Simon Paper has never made public in any emails or on the official website exactly what is being done with these three lines. For now, it is Simon Paper’s final decision to stop work and production to ride out the hard times.”

“As for your claim of using the shutdown to cover up illegal dismissals, this also does not exist. We have very clear evidence, including the reduction in orders, the increase in the price of raw materials and the rise in operating costs. All of which clearly prove that there have been major difficulties in the business operations and that the shutdown had to be carried out. In the meantime, we have notified the labor union of the 189 person layoff plan and have obtained their consent. At the same time, I will communicate with the 189 employees again afterwards and we will pay the economic compensation in a very compliant manner, so I believe no one among the 189 employees will object. As for the suspension of work and production, there is no problem with the procedure and it has been filed with the labor inspection department.”

Because of Song Lianjun’s gaze, Du Xinyi was in a difficult position, she could only continue to argue forcefully, “But you obviously stopped the production in order not to give these old employees financial compensation! This suspension of work and production is not reasonable at all!”

“I can’t believe you’re a lawyer.” Ji Lin gave Du Xinyi a blank look, ” If it is reasonable or unreasonable, it’s not up to you to decide. Firstly, you have no evidence to prove that Simon Paper’s suspension of the production line was fraudulent. Secondly, the only case in which the court has upheld a finding that an enterprise used a work suspension to cover up an illegal dismissal is the one in which the enterprise first dismissed its employees illegally. And after the employees’ labor arbitration and request for reinstatement of their labor relations the company in order to again achieve the purpose of illegal dismissal of employees, and thus to stop work and production lines, actually required employees to ‘stay on duty’.”

Ji Lin blinked, “Simon Paper had directly proposed the suspension of work and production from the very beginning. There was no such thing as using the suspension of work and production to cover up the matter because they can not fire the employees.”

The logic was tight and there were no loopholes.

Du Xinyi choked: “But I saw that a reporter from the city newspaper wrote about Simon Paper’s relocation of production lines! Don’t deny it!”

Ji Lin gave Bai Duanduan a provocative look, “I can’t stand your assistant anymore. She’s a disgrace as a lawyer.”

Bai Duanduan closed her eyes, then turned her head sideways to stop Du Xinyi from disgracing herself even more, as she looked at her coldly, “Don’t you know that business decisions are not credible until the last second? Now of course, whatever they say is what they are.”

Du Xinyi bit her lip, undeterred, “I still have that newspaper ……”

“For this news, the newspaper strives to have no legal risk and responsibility, unless it is a face to face interview copy. Even if there is an anonymous submission from an insider, only ‘It is reported’ will be used in the final draft. Do you want me to give you time to confirm it now, Du Xinyi? Besies, even if the paper says it’s definite, the paper isn’t an official medium of Simon Paper, so it’s meaningless.”

Regardless of whether the production line will be moved to Mexico or India in the future, as long as Simon Paper stops work and production for long enough, until only a few die-hard employees are left, reducing the cost of layoffs to a minimum, and then finally pretending to restart work for a bit. Then legally this kind of operation was completely reasonable and within the limits of law. After resuming work for a period of time, if they shift their production line, this could be explained by the fact that the ever changing business environment and market had led to a new decision by the top management.

Although the current job market was not friendly to middle aged employees in their forties like Song Lianjun, as long as they look for one, they can always find a next job, but there will definitely be a huge drop in salary and benefits. But even if the salary level drops, it will still be higher than 2,480 yuan a month, and only by changing to a new job, can they be able to barely support their family.