You're Fired !

37

The immediate shutdown would force employees like Song Kang to quickly find another job. Even at the expense of lowering their own worth, just so that they could find a new job to at least support their families. Once they have a new job, inevitably they would have to take the initiative to terminate their contract with Simon Paper immediately. If any employee secretly signed two employment contracts behind Simon Paper's back, it would be easy. According to Jungkook's ability, he would be able to fire the employee for breach of contract by working for two companies at the same time.

It would be an easy move to save money without any effort.

It was the perfect solution for layoffs.
The only thing left to fight for was ...
Lisa  looked at Jungkook, "Since Simon Paper has a union, has the union agreed to the decision to suspend work and production?"

As long as one of the union members was on the list of 111 people involved in the shutdown, there was no way they could easily agree to this proposal!

As if he was waiting for Lisa to ask this question, Jungkook smiled pleasantly, "Of course. The union will agree."

He glanced at Song Kang, "He's not in the union, and none of his other 110 colleagues are in the union either. So for the sake of the overall interests of the company, I'll convince the union. After all, this is really a suspension of work and production."

111 people, and not a single one of them was in the union!

Lisa frowned and looked at Song Kang, who then explained as a matter of fact, "We all thought the union was useless ...... usually always takes up time on weekends to organise this and that activity. We are all old employees with families and are not interested in such weekend activities. To join, we had to pay union fees and occasionally have meetings and a lot of stuff. We didn't find it interesting, so we never joined ......"

This was the typical example of how you refuse responsibility and therefore lose rights. Without ownership, you can't control your own destiny.

No one usually finds a union useful until a labour dispute befalls them. Many workers simply don't realise that the voice they gain when they join a union would be the bargaining chip they can use while negotiating with companies.

It's just that not only do unions defend the legal rights of workers, they also need to defend the production and operation of the company and find a balance between the two. Although the shutdown affected 111 employees, Simon Paper was still a large company, with other more production lines continuing to operate, and the other 189 people were rightly resigned and properly dealt with.

Of the 111 employees, none have joined the trade union. It was only natural that when the union would listen to the major decisions of the company, there might not be anyone who could be so empathetic in fighting for their rights and interests.

It was not difficult to understand that the union would choose to support the suspension of production in the face of the overall interests. Now with such a turn of events, Jungkook was confident of getting the union's approval.

Even as an opponent, Lisa could not help but applaud Jungkook. She had to admit that she was still a bit inexperienced compared to Jungkook. She used to win so many cases in B City. It was because B City was a second-tier city, and the legal market and competitiveness were not as strong as A City, which was the provincial capital. She has never met a good opponent. She mistakenly thought that she could win every time because of her high level knowledge. But she does not know that she was just a middle school student doing math problems for elementary school students. She realised the gap as soon as she entered the university.

Previously, Lisa had always disapproved of returning from B City to A City, but it was not until this moment that she realized that coming back was the right thing to do. She has to see the gap before she can catch up and learn.