Company Threatens To Fire Single and divorce Employee if They Don’t Get Married

Fire Single and divorce Employee: A Chinese company, Shuntian Chemical Group, spark controversy by threatening to fire single and divorced employees if they didn’t marry by September.

Government officials took notice of a company in the Shandong region of China that threatened to fire its divorce and single workers. So, If they didn’t find a new partner by the end of September. Shandong Shuntian Chemical Group Co. Ltd. sent out a note to its 1,200-plus workers, stressing that they work hard and start families. According to a South China Morning Post story.

The letter mandated that all unmarriege employees between the ages of 28 and 58, including those who were divorce, get marriege and start a family by the end of September this year. If they don’t, they must compose a letter of self-criticism by the end of March. The business will perform a “evaluation” of them if they are not marriege by the end of June. They will be let go by the end of September if they are still unmarriege.

“Diligence, kindness, loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness” are the cultural characteristics and spirit that the corporation say the move was meant to encourage. Chinese social media users criticized the decision as the news spread, claiming the corporation was breaking multiple regulations.

“Corporate rules should not override laws or social morals,” one user commented. While others pointed out that the Chinese marriage law guarantees freedom of marriage.

“This crazy company should mind its own business and stay away from the personal lives of employees.”