Gree Electrical Appliances Chairman Mingzhu responded to "sweatshops" said

"Internal innovation" or "Squeeze employees"? --The investigation of cloud "sweatshops" suspicion

Recently, an article called "Exclusive to the bottom of the Gree" sweatshop "articles circulated online, triggering an uproar in the industry and public opinion widely concerned. In this respect, Gree Electric appliances Chairman Mingzhu Response: "Oneself is healthy, others say you have cancer, do you really have cancer?" ”

Is it "industry benchmark" or "sweatshop"? The reporter recently went to Zhuhai Gree Electric appliance carried on the field investigation.

Do you apportion tasks and force employees to buy products?

This questioning article calls Gree "sweatshops", with two of the main evidence. The 1th question is that gree electrical appliances "to all employees to apportion sales tasks, forcing nearly 80,000 employees to buy products."

The reporter at Gree electric appliance door randomly interview nearly 20 gree electrical appliance staff, did not hear has the compulsory staff to buy the product the complaint. Gree Electrical Securities Legal Affairs Department staff Yang Yongxin told reporters that he sold 11 pieces of Gree products in the first quarter, received 1500 yuan bonuses. "Ordinary employees do not have a sales mission, but there is a reward for sales." "Yang Yongxin said.

Gree Electrical Appliances Business Administration director said, the company did not to the General staff to apportion the sales task, but does require middle-level cadres to "internal price" to friends and relatives recommended to buy products, the target is 100,000 yuan. "Middle-level cadres undertake a number of promotional tasks, which is the guiding mechanism of the company, the completion of the task to obtain incentives, not to complete the task will not be punished." ”

The official said that forcing employees to buy products was a "misreading" of the special Award for Gree. Gree Electrical Appliances Preparation workshop Front-line workers Luo told reporters, he received a total of 10,000 Yuan year-end award and a special award of 5500 Yuan, special award in kind way, you can choose the company's air-conditioning, small household electrical appliances and other products such as rice and other objects. "Year-end award for many years are two months salary, 10,000 yuan in cash before the Spring Festival has been issued to the pay Card, the Special award is in the past two years additional bonus items, may be misunderstood by some people who are not aware of the situation is forced to take their money to buy the company's products." ”

Are the bonuses for middle-level cadres delayed and deducted?

The second main proof of the article is that the middle-class cadres ' 2011 and 20,122 year-end awards were not made until the second half of 2013, and most of the bonuses shrank; since 2011, all the Gree, subsidiaries and air-conditioning production base of the mid-level cadres of the backbone of the bonus has not been issued, involving hundreds of people.

According to the introduction, Gree electrical appliances in the experience of long-term development, there has been an imperfect performance appraisal system, bonuses issued "Pat Head", arbitrary big problems. 2012, the new board of Gree electrical appliances after the inauguration, began to establish a new evaluation index system and "staff, Leadership anonymous scoring system."

According to the new assessment system, poor performance of gree middle-level cadres will be a sharp decline in income. Gree Electrical Appliances Human Resources department head Wang Lichen confirmed that 2011 has 32% middle-level cadres, 2012 9% of Middle-level cadres income year-on-year decline.

At the same time, there are many middle-level cadres of the year-end award rise. "According to the new performance evaluation criteria, the performance of middle-level cadres are more rigorous, but overall incentive and bonus plate is increased." 2011 68% of Middle-level cadres, 2012 74% of Middle-level cadres annual salary to achieve growth. "Wang Lichen said.

For the year-end award issuance time, Wang Lichen explained that, according to the practice, the middle-level Cadre year-end award generally in the year after the end of the second year of performance appraisal, due to the assessment adjustment and other factors, the company decided to the middle-level cadres 2011 years, 2012 bonuses issued simultaneously. The 2011 bonuses were delayed, mainly because the company spent more than half a year in 2012 to establish and improve the evaluation system, and the collection of 2011 data, records and related materials accounted for a large amount of time. In addition, most of the branches, branch of the middle-level serious supernumerary, and some subsidiary offices even appear "one or seven pairs", need to reduce the production control personnel, set up a set of reward science system. There is resistance to the work of the controller and delays the time.

"Internal innovation" or "Squeeze employees"?

"sweatshops" generally refers to factories to squeeze workers to obtain corporate profits. Is gree really a sweatshop?

Gree Electrical Appliances in general the department's main leadership and son, the branch of the main leadership known as middle-level cadres, Gree has about 150 middle-level cadres, about 79,000 employees, middle-level cadres accounted for 0.18% of the total number of employees. "Middle-level cadres accounted for less than 0.2% of the people have a rise and fall in the income adjustment and guidance of the task of the whole factory employees suffered a pay cut and ' mandatory ', the internal system of innovation as a" degenerate ", I really do not know what logic? "says a senior executive at Gree Electric.

"The main principle of the evaluation system adjustment is to tilt to the front-line staff and to strengthen the middle-level cadres ' performance evaluation." Middle-level cadres pay a rise and fall, but overall incentive and bonus plates are increased. 2011, 2012, the average annual income of front-line staff growth of 13%, 2013 growth of 17%. "Wang Lichen said, do business is not Shing, income has a rise and drop very normal, Gree did most of the staff, especially the first line of staff income, welfare reasonable growth."

According to the introduction, 2013 Gree front-line staff per capita annual income of 63359 yuan. In a random interview with reporters, most employees also reflected a gradual rise in annual income. Li Fu, who worked on the assembly line, started working in Gree 2002. "Wages are raised every year. Although not ideal, earn a hard money, but also talk about ' sweatshops ' bar. "he said.

The reporter also learned from the Zhuhai relevant departments, Gree electrical appliances are promoting the construction of housing, is expected to invest 1 billion yuan to build 3000 sets of security room to solve the problem of staff housing.

In the process of gree electric appliance reform, some 10 middle-level cadres have been demoted and removed from office due to poor performance or mismanagement in recent years. For Gree is referred to as "sweatshops", central air-conditioning division is exempt from the job of a middle-class cadre said, to the enterprise has the opinion can mention, dissatisfied can resign, but can not slander the enterprise behind.

During the interview, some individuals expressed "not very satisfied" with their income. A gree current middle-level cadres believe that in recent years Gree performance has increased rapidly, but the income growth rate of employees did not keep up with this speed.

Gree Electrical Appliances announced that 2013, the company's total operating income of more than 120 billion yuan, increased by 19.9%, operating profit of more than 12.5 billion yuan, growth of 56.3%.

"An enterprise internal innovation, unexpectedly leads to gree electrical appliances is ' sweatshops ' bizarre statement, is really inconceivable." Gree Electrical Appliances Marketing Department Mezerian in an interview said.

But why aren't you sick and someone will say you have cancer? To this, Mingzhu answer: you understand.