Chapter 565: The Great Layoff

Layoff, short for economic layoff, is a situation where the labor contract is terminated due to the employer. It refers to the act of centralized dismissal of employees that is carried out by an employer in accordance with the law during a specific period of time.

Enterprises that implement economic downsizing may lay off surplus personnel due to changes in production and business conditions. The personnel department often plays a relevant role as an implementer.

The usual routine for this is to first interview the target of the layoff and ask him or her to sign a legal document of automatic separation. The laid-off person will of course be able to receive a certain amount of financial compensation.

As for those who do not sign the document, they will be coerced into saying one thing or another. In a word, early or late is to sign, you sign now, but also be able to go decently, will not leave any stain on the career resume career above, the money can also be taken immediately.

If you don’t sign, will the company be afraid of you? What does the legal department of the company do? I’ve seen a lot of people like you. If you want to sue, feel free. Drag you to death ……

Another way to deal with people who don’t want to work is to put your workstation next to the toilet or next to the corridor, which is a common tactic in Japanese companies.

You are not assigned to do any work, just to disgust you and make your self-esteem suffer. Otherwise, they send you to a particularly difficult position and force you to sign out.

The Hard Gold Group’s personnel minister, Takayuki Nanno, began a major layoff of one-third of the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing Company’s staff under the seated command of the group.

Unofficial staff, that’s especially good. That is, when their contracts expired, they were not renewed. If the years are long, just find a reason to lay people off.

In the beginning, when the HR department and the dispatching company of any big-handed company signed a labor contract, there were always clauses in their favor.

The dispatching company will sign the contract even in the face of this kind of unequal contract. If they don’t sign the contract with their own dispatch company, there are many other dispatch companies lining up to sign the contract.

Moreover, the profit of the dispatching company is also taken from the head of the dispatched person. What does it have to do with the death or life of the other party?

There is a scene in the Japanese movie “The Night Sky is Always the Densest Blue”, which won the first place in the Top 10 Japanese Movies of 2017, in which a dispatch employee suddenly collapses and dies at work.

At his funeral, the president of the dispatch company says something to the main character, not about condolences or anything like that, but that he hopes that even if they die, they don’t die during working hours.

This shows how indifferent Japanese society is. Especially the dispatched employees who don’t have a formal job, they don’t even have the right to die, and they need to choose the right time to die.

The list of laid-off people who are over forty years old and are regular members of the society is the first to be publicized. It was not all sad. Those who were only one, two, or three years short of retiring at sixty were indifferent and even quite happy.

They were most motivated to get that paper of separation signed. The compensation they received from the company was enough for them to pay for their social security pension, medical care and so on.

In addition, they also got the company’s pension in advance. As for the next old age, happy to work on the work, not happy to work on the arrangement of personal future pension life.

The most painful people are those who are still more than ten years away from retirement, with the old and the young. How dare they sign? No more work will have to go out to find a job, after all, the company to give the financial compensation is simply not enough for them to use to the age of sixty.

People like them, who are older, do not have any advantage in the job market. Even if they were to look for a job, they would not be able to find one in a short period of time.

Even if they decide to take a temporary job after being beaten by reality and struggling with the situation, young people are preferred to be hired.

A Japanese movie called “Tokyo Sonata”, in which Teruyuki Kagawa played a role, reflects the various pains and troubles experienced by middle-aged older men after they are laid off by their companies and lose their jobs.

Natsui Makoto sat on the sofa in her living room, watching an NHK report on TV. Some of the laid-off employees of Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing were unwilling to accept the situation, so they organized a protest group under the leadership of someone.

One by one, they tied cloth strips to their heads and pulled banners, wanting to work, eat, and survive. Do not accept the company’s decision to lay off employees ……

Many of them are very emotional. One of the organizers holding a megaphone in his right hand was tearfully complaining in front of the reporters’ cameras.

Natsui Makoto watched the live news report while wiping her tears with a tissue from a tissue box. She was from a bitter family, and she could not see this kind of thing.

Meanwhile, Masayoshi Kishimoto was inside his chairman’s office watching the live news report on the same channel as Makoto Natsui, after all, it was about his company.

At this time, his cell phone suddenly rang. He picked up his cell phone from his desk and saw that the caller ID was Kazuhiko Inoue.

Masayoshi Kishimoto pressed the green answer button, attached it next to his right ear, and asked bluntly, “What is it?”

“Have you watched the TV yet?NHK’s report.” Kazuhiko Inoue blurted out.

“Watching it, why?” Masayoshi Kishimoto asked calmly in return.

“Do you need me to arrange for someone to come over? Don’t worry, absolutely no one will be killed and no traces will be left behind. You have to believe that I’m an absolute professional.

We’ll wear masks, gloves, and sunglasses, and we won’t be carrying knives, only wooden baseball bats. Even if any of us were to be arrested by the police, we wouldn’t confess, we’d just bite the bullet and say it was a fight.” Kazuhiko Inoue said bluntly.

“Fuck off. I’m doing perfectly visible and legal things now, I’m not doing anything that underhanded. They want to protest, that’s their right.

As long as they don’t vandalize or disrupt the normal working order, let them be.” Masayoshi Kishimoto categorically dismissed his proposal saying.

“You really need to stop thinking about it so hard.” Kazuhiko Inoue said seriously.

“Consider it my ass. I’m hanging up.” Masayoshi Kishimoto did not like the other party’s way of solving problems with violence. Even if he himself needed to use violent means, he had to point at the person.

For those who were able to reason things out, then of course they would reason things out. For those who could not be reasoned with, one would have no choice but to use extraordinary means.

Reasoning are all reasonable, that still need public prosecutors and law do what? What’s more, any one of the big hand enterprises have appeared in such a similar situation. For this reason, there is nothing to make a fuss about.

The reason why the media would report it was because it was newsworthy for them. Businessmen had no borders, and what they valued most was profit.