Refusing to participate in the birthday party is fined: employees have the right to say "no"
■ Come on
According to media reports, Guizhou man Xiao Cui worked for a local real estate company. His boss, Chu, notified all employees to attend a birthday party at a colleague’s house. Five others, including Xiao Cui, did not attend.
After the incident, Chu said in the company group that those who did not show up were fined 100 yuan.
Xiao Cui claimed that he was expelled during the negotiation process.
Xiao Cui said that after Chu sent the notice of the birthday party, he did not attend because of fear of the epidemic.
Chu explained afterwards that the move was to give employees a sense of belonging, “who will come later if this is not the case”, and that there is no real fine.
In recent years, the phenomenon of corporate punishments for exotic works has been exposed.
Even so, this incident still aroused the indignation of the majority of office workers-as an adult, even the right to refuse to attend a birthday party after get off work should be deprived?
What right is right is that it cannot be violated at will.
Employees in the workplace do need to follow many workplace rules, but this does not mean that employees' rights can be arbitrarily manipulated.
Whether it is a departmental team building party or a birthday party at a colleague's home, it is actually quite a "daily" workplace situation.
But when these scenes add the premise that "the boss forces the subordinates to participate", things change.
The reason is that such coercion is a violation of employee rights.
In reality, there are always "forced" scenes in the workplace that make employees overwhelmed.
The "participation in a birthday party" in this matter can also be replaced by other situations, such as accompany drinking and working overtime.
Situations like these always arouse public pain.
Especially nowadays, as concepts such as employee rights and labor rights have gradually taken root in the hearts of the people, such issues have continuously entered the field of public opinion and aroused social discussion.
In this incident, the concept of "rights" was clearly ignored.
When the boss attaches obligations to employees, he easily associates with names such as "belonging", but lacks a basic right-based perspective.
The common sense that "opportunity is love, not right" has been trampled on by kidnapping thinking.
What's more, according to the person concerned, one of the important reasons why he did not attend the birthday party is also worried about the epidemic.
If this is the case, it is even more unacceptable.
In the context of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, all localities are advocating "less gathering" and "less mobility."
Forcing employees to attend birthday parties and dealing with those who don't go is also contrary to the regulations in this regard.
In the final analysis, "power is not self-willed" and corporate management power is the same.
Disregarding the basic rights of employees, going beyond the rules and boundaries-the labor law should not be allowed, and the right-based consciousness is not compatible.
□Ma Xiaolong (media person)