The company said that the woman took 4 naps lasting 6, 8, 28, and 6 minutes respectively.
by dozing off four times during the overnight shift, according to news portal btime.com. The company’s name was not disclosed by the Intermediate People’s Court in Zhuhai, in southern China’s Guangdong province, which heard the case.
Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with , our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team.when they fired herA Chinese court said it was unreasonable to fire the woman for dozing off when there were few cars entering the car park. Photo: Weibo In April 2019, the company moved her to the overnight shift collecting fees in the car park. The company said that, during four days in June, Xiaoyi took naps lasting 6, 8, 28 and 6 minutes respectively, and these happened between 4am and 5am. The woman said she was not consulted about the move to the overnight shift, and they had not asked about her physical condition. Xiaoyi filed a complaint with an arbitration court that ordered the company to pay her 48,146 yuan, or 14 times her monthly salary of 3,439 yuan Not accepting the decision, the company filed an appeal at Xiangzhou District People’s Court, which upheld the original arbitral award. It then lodged another appeal at the intermediate court. In its decision, the intermediate court said it was unreasonable to fire the woman because she dozed off when few cars entered or left the car park. It added that because Xiaoyi was in the early stages of her pregnancy, her sleeping behaviour would have been justified.Story continues In 2018, a Nanjing-based privately-run medical centre fired a woman after she refused to work as a nurse because she was originally hired as a doctor there. In that case, the employer said they changed the woman’s role after she had given birth because they thought she “might take more days off”. The woman filed for labour arbitration and won the case. The medical centre had to pay her 60,000 yuan .
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