In an unusual legal battle, a Chinese woman identified by her last name Wang successfully sued her former employer for wrongful termination after she was fired for leaving work one minute early in six days within a single month.
The case, which has received attention for its seemingly trivial reasons for dismissal, reached a local court in Guangdong Province, where Wang had been employed for three years with a commendable performance record.
According to South China Morning PostsThe court gave up in favor of WAN and said her departure one minute before her official left time could not be considered to leave work early.
The court further emphasized that the named company had failed to issue any prior warnings or attempts to correct Wang’s behavior before suddenly terminating her employment. The dismissal was based solely on the monitoring register, indicating her early departure.
The court’s decision explicitly considered Wang’s dismissal illegal with reference to lack of adequate evidence and the company’s unreasonable acts.
The compensation amount must receive from its former employer has not been revealed.
According to Wang, it was late last year that her Human Resource (HR) manager called her to tell her that office monitoring registers showed she had left her seat a minute early in six days of a month.
After her dismissal, Wang persecuted litigation by filing a complaint with the local worker rights authority before taking her case to court.
