China I an online Gaming The company held an employee in a ‘tiny dark room’ for four days in an attempt to get him to resign, sparking a legal battle over workers’ rights.
Gaming company Guangzhou Doi Network has challenged the court’s ruling, which ordered the company to compensate the former employee, the South China Morning Post reported.
In the midst of protracted negotiations over his resignation from a Guangzhou subsidiary in Sichuan province, a man named Liu Lanzhou arrived at work one day in late 2022 to find he might no longer log into the system or use his entry pass.
The company told Liu Lanzhou that he had to attend a ‘training’ and locked him in a small room on a separate floor away from his workplace.
The room had no electricity and was completely dark. There was nothing but a table and a chair.
Although Liu Lanzhou was allowed to ‘freely’ leave the room and return home following ‘work’ for the next four days, he was assigned no work, the South China Morning Post reported, citing court documents. It was not done and his mobile phone was also confiscated.
On the fifth day, his wife went to the police. It was then that the company issued an official notice of dismissal.
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To avoid paying compensation, Guangzhou claimed that Liu was fired because he violated company policies.
In May this year, a Sichuan court ordered the company to pay 380,000 yuan (£40,500) in damages for mistreating Liu Lanzhou. The firm openly disputed the decision and published the full court document on its Weibo account.
The company said: ‘We believe that there are many problems with labor laws that seriously hinder economic development and that they are enforced arbitrarily by judges who distort the facts.’
The record of the case is yet to be made public on the court’s website. The company accused Liu Lanzhou of viewing indecent images and browsing unrelated websites during work hours.
Liu, on the other hand, maintained that as a game art editor, he viewed these images for work purposes. The court also agreed with his position.
According to The Post, the court ruled that confining Liu Lanzhou to a ‘dark room’ was illegal under the Labor Contract Law, which requires employers to provide employees with adequate working conditions. .
The company did not comment further on the matter.
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2024-07-14 16:53:42
