Post by Soutpeel on Mar 27, 2016 18:10:06 GMT 7
Court Decides If Man Died From Too Much Overtime Or Too Much Porn
Corporate misconduct trials are on the rise in China. Rarely have they ever offered as much intrigue as a case currently making its way through the courts in Beijing. Rather than embezzlement or misappropriations, the central point of this case hinges on the actions of one 54-year-old man. Was he spending all those early mornings and late nights at the office doing work to placate his boss or was he simply enjoying some alone time with a fast internet connection and lots of porn websites?
As is the case so often, nearly everything in this weird trial is skewed depending on if you listen to the prosecution or the defense. The defendant is Beijing Yinuojia Technology. The prosecution consists of the family of the late 54-year-old Mr. Zhang, the now deceased former employee of the tech firm. The facts that both sides can agree upon are the following. On May 1, 2015, International Labor Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, Zhang suffered a severe brain hemorrhage while sitting at his desk in the company’s headquarters. Security officers found him unresponsive and took him to a local hospital. Zhang died seven days later.
According to briefs released from the Shijingshan district court in Beijing, Zhang’s family filed a wrongful death suit against the tech startup on September 1, 2015. Their claim is that the hemorrhage was the result of the excessive hours Zhang was forced to work. According to their accounts, he had been doing so much design and development work for the company over the first four months of 2015, that by May 1, he had worked the equivalent of 100 days of overtime.
Lawyers for Beijing Yinuojia Technology dispute the family’s account. They say Zhang, like every other employee, worked from 9am to 6pm, with an hour for lunch. The company wasn’t even allowing overtime work to be completed during the first part of 2015. They also pointed to the strange fact that Zhang showed up for work on Labor Day, which is a national holiday. Video evidence from CCTV cameras in the building showed that Zhang was the only non-security employee who went to work on May 1. Additional cameras recorded Zhang browsing pornographic websites at his workstation minutes before he suffered the brain hemorrhage. According to the tech firm, despite the fact that its employee was not completing his work because he was so busy looking at naked women to fulfill his porn addiction, they still paid $4500 of Zhang’s $5500 medical bills.
www.weirdasianews.com/2016/03/05/court-decides-man-died-much-overtime-much-porn/
Corporate misconduct trials are on the rise in China. Rarely have they ever offered as much intrigue as a case currently making its way through the courts in Beijing. Rather than embezzlement or misappropriations, the central point of this case hinges on the actions of one 54-year-old man. Was he spending all those early mornings and late nights at the office doing work to placate his boss or was he simply enjoying some alone time with a fast internet connection and lots of porn websites?
As is the case so often, nearly everything in this weird trial is skewed depending on if you listen to the prosecution or the defense. The defendant is Beijing Yinuojia Technology. The prosecution consists of the family of the late 54-year-old Mr. Zhang, the now deceased former employee of the tech firm. The facts that both sides can agree upon are the following. On May 1, 2015, International Labor Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, Zhang suffered a severe brain hemorrhage while sitting at his desk in the company’s headquarters. Security officers found him unresponsive and took him to a local hospital. Zhang died seven days later.
According to briefs released from the Shijingshan district court in Beijing, Zhang’s family filed a wrongful death suit against the tech startup on September 1, 2015. Their claim is that the hemorrhage was the result of the excessive hours Zhang was forced to work. According to their accounts, he had been doing so much design and development work for the company over the first four months of 2015, that by May 1, he had worked the equivalent of 100 days of overtime.
Lawyers for Beijing Yinuojia Technology dispute the family’s account. They say Zhang, like every other employee, worked from 9am to 6pm, with an hour for lunch. The company wasn’t even allowing overtime work to be completed during the first part of 2015. They also pointed to the strange fact that Zhang showed up for work on Labor Day, which is a national holiday. Video evidence from CCTV cameras in the building showed that Zhang was the only non-security employee who went to work on May 1. Additional cameras recorded Zhang browsing pornographic websites at his workstation minutes before he suffered the brain hemorrhage. According to the tech firm, despite the fact that its employee was not completing his work because he was so busy looking at naked women to fulfill his porn addiction, they still paid $4500 of Zhang’s $5500 medical bills.
www.weirdasianews.com/2016/03/05/court-decides-man-died-much-overtime-much-porn/
