Chapter 178: The Child Labor Incident Ends
For Xi Xiaoyan, she is not satisfied with the two newcomers, first, they are really very young, they are simply young. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The info job sign says sixteen, but she knows it's not the case at all, but she doesn't want to say anything based on the current situation. In recent years, there has been more child labor, and many small workshops are recruiting village children, and more often girls. The villagers are simple and have no heart to do what to do, and the little bosses are very willing to pit them, and the so-called deduction of wages or settlement of wages directly blasted away, at that time I really wanted to cry without tears.
People are very selfish, although Xi Xiaoyan doesn't like this kind of thing, she won't choose to report it, it would be too bad if she was put in small shoes by the factory. About this Dexin company, there are rumors that the boss himself is a child, and she laughed it off, probably because the real boss can't wait to pass the position to his child.
Judging from the work on the first day, the work of Li Ming and Li Xin, the brother and sister, was not bad, in short, they did not hold everyone back. It turned out that the workers in these two positions were transferred to the department, but they didn't expect to get two children in exchange, and it is unknown how long they can last such hard work.
The new friend came and was very friendly to him, and he wanted to take a nap, and since the boy was willing to talk, he would talk about it.
From the discussion, Daming learned that this girl named Cheng Manli is fifteen years old this year, and she is a typical child laborer, but her appearance feels like she is eighteen years old. Girls develop early, and even Mu Xin gives people a more mature feeling.
She comes from a fishing village on the edge of Taihu Lake, where her family has been fishing for generations, growing lotus roots and rice in their spare time. The busiest time for the family is when the lotus root is dug up, but compared to her current income, the money from the land and the harvest of the lotus root is small. She said she had a younger brother at home. "My brother studies well, I think she can be admitted to high school and then go to college, so that my sister will be worth it for the rest of her life."
She said this with peace of mind, and Da Ming asked in surprise: "For your younger brother, you came out to work at the age of fifteen, is this really good?" ”
"There's nothing bad, girl. It is enough to finish junior high school, and in the future, marry a good man and teach children. Besides, what's the use of girls learning so much? ”
"Why is it useless?" Mu Xin hurriedly said, "We girls can go to school as well, as long as we study hard, we can be admitted to college, and we are no different from boys at that time!" Girls can also have careers. ”
Cheng Manli smiled bitterly: "But no, if I don't come out to work, my family won't even be able to support my younger brother's tuition." He will have a lot of tuition fees for high school in the future, and it would be wrong for me not to expect my parents to get up early and stay late. Suddenly, she realized the disobedience again, and raised her head and asked, "Aren't you the same?" Leaving the village, he followed an intermediary to work, and received a salary of 400 yuan a month to subsidize his family. Speaking of going to school, I can see that you are only fourteen years old, so you should have dropped out of school. The big truth just said doesn't make much sense. ”
Da Ming and Mu Xin smiled awkwardly, and indeed their own identities were like this, two children who dropped out of school. In order to play the likeness, the two deliberately dressed up a little dirty, and Mu Xin even thought of a trick to paint black powder on the faces of the two of them, and they had to go through the vicissitudes of life first, and were directly ridiculed by the star fruit to play the role of black Shu Huang. Although the two of them don't understand the meaning of the word "Black Shu Xiao", it is estimated that they want to make two old hats.
Just as he was about to say something, Da Ming suddenly remembered that just now this girl said that her salary was four hundred yuan. "Sister Manli, just now you said that your salary is only 400 yuan, what's going on? I heard that our boss said that our salary is too small, and plans to increase our monthly salary to 1,000 yuan! ”
Cheng Manli shook her head helplessly and said: "We heard about this, and my sisters and I were still excited at that time, but the intermediary uncle said that he would only raise the salary to 500 yuan, and he would take 300 yuan from the salary of 700 yuan, and he would take 500 from the salary increase in the future." ”
"How can this be?!" Da Ming and Mu Xin said in surprise.
"Looks like you weren't introduced by an intermediary, you're so happy. In this way, you will not be taken away from the commission, and you will be happy to get a thousand yuan a month. ”
"The agent doesn't work again, why give him the money?" Da Ming asked.
Cheng Manli shook her head helplessly, taking this opportunity for her to spit out her bitterness. Insiders Daming and Mu Xin both understood, it was really a shocking insider, the company's wages for this batch of child laborers were first given to the intermediary, and then to them last. They have boys and girls but they are children, and it would be foolish to want to resist, because the intermediaries are holding their jobs hostage, and it is not in accordance with the law to call them child laborers. If they make a fuss, then ask the company to fire them, so that there is no money to be made. Moreover, 400 yuan a month is 500 yuan in the future, compared to the income of a family in the village who can only earn two or three thousand a year, and here the net income is 6,000 a year, they don't even go there to find a job that makes so much money at the age of sixteen?
After spitting out the bitter water, Cheng Manli was in a much better mood, but Mu Xin and Da Ming were blocked in their hearts. The agent I hadn't met, according to Cheng Manli, brought ten people, two boys and eight girls, and all of them were from the same village. "I still like this job very much, and my parents say that I am capable, so I don't have other ideas." Da Ming was very helpless, obviously this person had accepted this fate, and did not have that spirit of resistance, maybe at this moment she knew that the young man in front of her was the chairman of the company, she would say it differently.
The deduction of money has been forgotten, Cheng Manli quickly became the image of a big sister, and led the two children to the canteen when it came to dinner.
She said a lot and was in a good mood, and this time she made an exception and ordered a meat dish - Dongpo meat.
At the dinner table, she was vomiting bitterness again: "I don't want to go home, and I am forced to drop out of school when I go home?" If you don't come out, you have to fish with your parents or even dig lotus roots, which is much more tiring than that. ”
The lotus roots are delicious, but Da Ming doesn't know where they came from. "Really, is the place where you came from a dry field? I've never seen digging lotus roots. She chattered a few words and continued to talk about digging lotus roots.
Children like Cheng Manli come out to work because of poverty, and she also said that some families have many girls, and they all come out to work, and most of the wages are given to the boys in the family to go to school. The poorer you are, the more you have to fight, you must give birth to a boy to guard the fertile land, work hard to get rich, and now the situation has changed, and those girls who can only help can also go out to work.
Cheng Manli was very grateful to Dexin Company for giving her a chance to eat meat here, and more importantly, she could eat white rice for a meal, the price was not only cheap, but she also ate as much as she wanted, which was much better than the food in the village. Her eyebrows fluttered, but Da Ming and Mu Xin felt inexplicably sad.
There was a lot of time to eat, and the three of them immediately returned to the assembly line. The afternoon's work is to pack the small speakers, similar to the memory module packaging in the morning, here it is still put into a plastic box first, and finally in a paper package. Xi Xiaoyan clapped her hands and encouraged, the workload in the afternoon was as high as 40,000 pieces, with an average of 8,000 per person, and everyone started working with a roar.
Through the morning's work, Da Ming didn't feel the urge to urinate, he asked Mu Xin implicitly about her feelings, and she replied that maybe it was because she was sweating too much. "It's too late to drink water, how can you go to the toilet!"
The afternoon is a lot of work, even if you are tired. Cheng Manli works in an orderly manner, she is like an emotionless machine, and the exact same work has to be repeated 8,000 times. During the meal, she talked about how to get rid of boredom, as long as she didn't think about anything, so that time would fly by.
After a day of work, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening when the work was over, and everyone only rested for ten minutes in the middle of the day, and went to the toilet for a small and convenient time. During this period, Da Ming curiously went to the toilet to take a look, and as soon as he entered the men's toilet, he was blasted out by the smell of smoke, which was really smoky.
When Cheng Manli got off work, she waved goodbye to the two of them and looked forward to tomorrow's coexistence, but unfortunately the two of them won't come tomorrow, but they still have good words on the table.
When she returned home, Mu Xin immediately spat on Mu Tao, telling that the work was inappropriate and that she didn't feel worth it to those workers. "If I get tired like this every day, I will be tired and fall apart in a few years."
"But you're a child, and you have to be an adult to do this kind of work, so don't go tomorrow with this experience."
"Indeed, this should be done by adults!" Da Ming said righteously, and then the star fruit shouted around, and everyone urgently had another small meeting.
Carambola was very pleased, and in order to welcome the returning brothers and sisters, she and Sakurako immediately made a pot of matcha milk tea for hospitality. The fragrance of tea and milk covers the bitterness of the day, and the fatigue on the body seems to be reduced.
He has a new plan for dealing with child labor, and it is better to deal with those intermediaries first than to ban child labor. "Those intermediaries took half of the money, and that girl's intermediary took ten people, and now he can get 3,000 yuan every month for nothing, which is not right!"
Mu Xin took advantage of the situation and echoed: "Those sisters are really hard, they work hard every day and half of their wages are taken away by idlers, and they also say that they are blackmailed as child laborers, and if they dare to resist, let us expel them." She turned her head to look at Da Ming and continued, "I know our boss won't do this at all. ”
Da Ming smiled, he really wouldn't use expulsion to solve everything simply and rudely. He still had to ask for the opinion of star fruit about the outcome of this matter, and star fruit thought for a while and said: "Let's just re-check it again and gather those intermediaries and children, the so-called because they are children, the salary increase should be used in another set of standards, and it will be called in this name." In the end, we will make a special one, in the past, we may have signed a contract with an intermediary, but now it is implemented in the individual, so we will give them a fake identity. ”
Da Ming nodded and said: "Maybe we can take advantage of the privilege, explain this matter to the mayor, we will definitely report those intermediaries like this, and we will let the municipal government leave them alone." In addition, we find a way to open a bank account for them, or find gold, in short, the money must go into their own pockets. ”
After some discussion, considering that they are too small, even if they open an account to withdraw money from the bank, it is still very troublesome, and finally simply hope that they can trust the company, let the company's finances control the money first, and can withdraw it all by the time of the Chinese New Year, or bring relatives to take it away, or explain the account to be transferred. At the end of the year, hesitatingly, considering that they were all fellow villagers, he directly asked the company to send someone to escort them back to their hometowns to calculate the tolerance.
The next time, Manli was disappointed, and the brother and sister did not come, but were replaced by two aunts. When she asked about this, Xi Xiaoyan was also confused, did the two children really not like this kind of work? They couldn't get paid for a day's work after they walked like this, and she even felt a little sorry.
At noon, the workshop director left Xi Xiaoyan and Cheng Manli behind. Mi Xudong took out two red envelopes containing 500 yuan, and he was still puzzled when he handed them over. "Congratulations to you two, this is given to you by our chairman himself, when did you attract the attention of the chairman?"
Neither of them thought much about it, anyway, the money is reliable, and for Xi Xiaoyan, the money is their own, and they don't need to give it to the intermediary.
In the evening, she noticed that the agent uncle was at the door, and the people he led the team gathered together in front of the packing car, and the so-called meeting was about the salary increase. Even if it is an increase of 100 yuan, it is a good thing, Xi Xiaoyan thinks that this chairman is really a good person.
The conference was attended by a little over a hundred people, all children, and eight intermediaries. Daming did not enter the venue for the time being, Mu Tao and Ma Hongjun were transferred, and they directly announced that they had terminated the contract with the intermediary, which was the contract terminated by the so-called child labor, and the audience was in an uproar. The intermediary stomped, and was theorizing what kind of security guard wore a black uniform, scaring the intermediary back to his seat.
Cheng Manli was taken aback, if she dissolves the relationship with the intermediary, she will be unemployed, so what does the chairman mean by giving him money in person? She doesn't know what the chairman looks like.
The agent was asked out, and they really couldn't reason for this kind of dismissal, so there were staff members outside the door who gave them a liquidated damages, and they had to hate it. Someone sighed: "Yes, there is no place to keep a master here, you can do it yourself!" ”
The children in the conference hall suddenly mourned, only to see a security guard with a loudspeaker yelling to suppress their emotions. Seeing that the time had come, Mu Tao hurriedly said loudly: "Children, don't be afraid, I know that you are all minors, but we will not fire you." Now we're signing you a new contract, and we're going to treat you as if you're all sixteen. In the future, your work will not only increase, but will increase. He said a bunch of things, and the people below were ecstatic.
For Cheng Manli, the intermediary left and signed a new contract, and the salary will be raised to 1,000 yuan in the future, and the money will be her own!
Outside the door, Da Ming, star fruit and Mu Xin have been waiting for a long time, and now it is them who make their debut. Da Ming put on a suit, and Mu Xin put on a dress, but their faces Cheng Manli remembered clearly. "How did you end up here?" She said secretly.
"Who are they, do you know?" The sister next to her hurriedly asked.
"It's the two newcomers who sat next to me yesterday, they are only thirteen or fourteen years old! I recognize their faces! ”
The sister Cheng Manli is among them, Daming doesn't need to name her, this time he is the chairman to explain his work. The podium is Daming's one-man show, and Mu Xin and star fruit have no choice but to be smiling spectators.
"Hello everyone, I am Yang Mingzhi, chairman of Dexin Super Times Company." As soon as this statement was introduced, there was an uproar.
It has long been rumored that the chairman is a child, and his surname is Yang. Suddenly, Cheng Manli remembered that he did say the word "Yang" when he introduced himself yesterday, and looking at the formation, he was really the chairman. This is clear, no wonder they will give a red envelope of 500 yuan, is it still guilty of deducting money yesterday because of the exchange of ears.
Maybe everything that just happened, the agent was asked to leave and signed a new contract, all of which were their own merits? He really listened to the complaints in the canteen, and this kind of thing was really hard to come by.
Daming's speech was a little bit about his entrepreneurship, the so-called ambition is not old, and encouraged the people present. But the people in the audience are most concerned about the salary, and Da Ming made a promise, because everyone is a child and should not be engaged in the same labor intensity as adults, so everyone will change positions, but the salary is still 1,000 yuan. This wage standard was very high in manufacturing enterprises in 1996, but the so-called future workers' wages will exceed 4,000, so he promised that the wages will continue to increase in the future.
The work of signing the new contract began immediately, and most of the people still asked for direct discovery of the money, including the warning of Da Ming about preventing loss, and they did not care. The so-called dormitory is a fellow villager, and everyone is a brother and sister who plays together until they grow up, and they are very relieved. This is their choice Da Ming decided to respect, and said that when he was eighteen years old, he must go to the bank to open an account, and then find gold directly.
In the end, Cheng Manli still didn't talk to Chairman Yang, thinking that her adventure had become a hero in the dormitory. It was the chairman who was moved by her words, and since then everyone turned into serfs and sang. But she is still very realistic, since the chairman is very fond of her, she should work hard.
This is the end of this matter, the so-called child labor is mostly forced by life, sacrificing oneself for the sake of the family, but in the end it is not right. Since then, the company has become stricter in recruiting new workers, and those contract workers on the assembly line must submit a copy of their ID card and household registration book when applying, so as to eliminate child labor as a package.