Gucci Labor Dispute Dispute Tracking: Labor Dispatch To Escape Responsibility Shield

The "China Internet" column recently reported that the internationally renowned luxury brand Gucci (Gucci) was suspected of "working overtime" and "maltreating employees". Many employees accused Gucci of its management practices violating the relevant labor laws and regulations, and aroused the concern of the community.

Gucci issued a statement on the evening of 11, said: it has been replaced by the management and shop supervisor.

At the same time, reporters in the interview learned that Shenzhen labor department has also intervened in the incident to investigate.

However, the reporter further traced the incident and found that because of the loopholes in the labor dispatch system, Gucci's labor dispute case in Shenzhen was faced with the problem of "off-site supervision".

While luxury giants continue to gain huge profits from the Chinese market, how to make them take the same social responsibility through strengthening supervision has become a topic worth pondering.

Gucci's "emergency statement"

On the evening of 11, Gucci issued a statement, noting that "a few of the former employees complained about the media coverage".

The statement said that the company had "replaced the relevant managers and shop supervisors", and was prepared to "strengthen the training of the store management team, reiterate the company's personnel management principles and continuously improve the staff welfare and working environment of all shops".

"China net" reporter interviewed chief executive of Gucci company on the morning of 12.

The official of Huang surnamed further claimed that the labor dispute in Shenzhen was only a special event and there were no similar problems in other shops throughout the country.

However, the employees in the labor dispute case disagree.

A female employee said he had asked for overtime payment from Gucci from January this year, but the other party had not given any overtime payment.

Labor department supervision difficulties: labor dispatch turned "shield"

Reporters in the follow-up investigation found that although the relevant departments of Shenzhen have begun to investigate, the investigation of the case has come across an unexpected "shield".

"This is an unprecedented case."

Wang Lijun, leader of the labor surveillance squadron of the Luohu District Bureau of human resources in Shenzhen, said that if all the labour disputes were like the "Gucci case", "10 times the number of our cases is not enough."

The survey shows that Gucci's Shenzhen brand store has established a complex system of labor employment.

Ma Duo, head of the legal department of the Luohu District Human Resources Bureau, said that although the staff of the Gucci shop in Shenzhen belonged to Gucci management, those who signed contracts with these Gucci employees were also enterprises in Shenzhen Nanshan District, a South China oil outsourcing service human resources limited company.

"In other words, these employees sign labor dispatch contracts.

We found that after signing the contract, employees were first sent to Gucci headquarters in Shanghai, then sent back to Shenzhen for work.

Therefore, when we need to investigate and collect evidence on labour disputes occurring in Shenzhen, all investigations become a remote investigation.

This will not only take time and effort, but also bring great resistance and difficulties to investigation and evidence collection.

Ma Duo said.

It is believed that the practice of Gucci is suspected of abusing labor dispatch.

According to the labor contract law, labor dispatching is usually implemented in temporary, auxiliary and alternative jobs.

However, many employees said that most of the employees of Gucci shops in Shenzhen signed a contract term of at least two years. "No matter how we look at our posts, it is difficult to describe them with temporary assistance."

Ma duo said the labor supervision department could not define Gucci's abuse of labor.

Abuse of labor dispatch should be "rest".

In recent years, a number of multinational giants, including Gucci, have come to life in the Chinese market and their performance has risen rapidly.

As reported by Gucci, the revenue of the Greater China region increased by 35.6% in the first half of this year, which is full of money. This also makes Gucci labor disputes related to employees' overtime pay even more dazzling.

According to a staff member who resigned, more than 50 employees of Gucci in Shenzhen, apart from a few managers, most of them signed labor dispatch contracts.

This is also true of other luxury goods companies.

However, because some luxury brands have huge interest margins, the relatively generous remuneration of these "dispatched" workers can be covered for a certain period of time, which partly obscures the risk of institutional defects.

For example, according to some employees, when they work in Gucci, their monthly income is about three thousand or four thousand yuan, which is lower than that of similar practitioners.

The reporter has learned that the relevant departments of the state have already known about the abuse of labor dispatching by some multinational enterprises, and began to investigate how to perfect and standardize the labor dispatching system.

Many netizens have suggested that mistakes like Gucci can not be erased by a single statement.

While promoting the perfection of the legal system, labor supervision departments should also strictly investigate the contents of employee complaints. Once verified, they should be severely punished according to relevant laws.