Motorola's China layoff plan is not going well

Absrtact: Motorola Nanjing Software Center about 100 employees in front of the company to pull up against Google illegal layoffs, to defend the South home of the banner banners to protest. August 17 Morning News, Motorola Chinese employees disclosed yesterday, because the company in the job cuts

Some 100 employees at Motorola's Nanjing Software Center recently pulled up banners to protest against Google's illegal layoffs and to defend the home of South Moses.

In the early hours of August 17, Motorola Chinese employees said yesterday that the two sides were still at a stalemate as the company was tough on layoffs and was unwilling to negotiate with its staff.

Job cuts in China are wide-ranging

In Sunday, Motorola Mobile announced to employees that the company would lay off 20%, about 4000 people, and close 1/3 of the world's 94 offices. Motorola Mobility is now a subsidiary of Google Inc. In August 2011, Google announced a 12.5 billion dollar takeover of Motorola Mobility.

China has become the world's largest mobile phone market, but China has been the hardest hit in Motorola's layoff plans. There have been reports of more than 1000 layoffs in China, but this data has not been confirmed by Motorola China.

According to the details of the current media has been exposed, Motorola China's layoffs almost involve China's research and development, sales, services and other departments, the principle of employees compensation "n+2" times the average monthly salary, of which N is the working life. It is revealed that, as a result of Motorola's spin-off in 2011, many employees have already received a compensation, so the reduction in the number of n basically no more than 3.

In addition, according to the media outlets, Motorola China's adjustment program has actually been completed, some details include: Google will not have high-level airborne to China, Motorola China and Google China will be relatively independent, will not have dependencies.

Strong layoffs spark employee dissatisfaction

However, according to the internal staff yesterday afternoon to Sina Technology disclosed that the Motorola China layoff plan was not smooth, because in the termination of the terms of labor contract and staff do not fully communicate, many employees refused to sign.

The employee said, "Basically the company is to give an agreement to terminate the labor contract, and then ask everyone to sign within 1-2 days, and very strong attitude." said that there is nothing to talk about, if the deadline is not signed on the unilateral dissolution of the contract. ”

The employee said the strong attitude of Motorola China attracted many employees ' dissatisfaction. Since the agreement is lifted, there should be consultation. We asked for information about redundancy plans and principles, but the company refused to produce them. ”

It was disclosed that August 15 was the final signing deadline given by Motorola China, but hundreds of employees were not signed and did not receive any agreement to terminate the labor contract unilaterally.

At present, many of the employees who have been selected for the list still have access to Motorola's China office, but Motorola China is not willing to negotiate with its employees.

Staff pull banners protest

In fact, some employees reacted more strongly to Motorola's Chinese layoffs. Some 100 employees at Motorola's Nanjing Software Center held banners to protest against Google's illegal layoffs and defend the South's home. On Sina Weibo, the picture was widely disseminated.

The Software research and Development department in Beijing and Nanjing will suffer considerable impact as Motorola will scale back the number of new listings and hope to launch premium handsets to compete in the market and pursue high profits. It is said that the Nanjing Research and Development Center staff will be all cut off.

To support the Nanjing Research and Development Center, Motorola employees at the Beijing Research and Development Center will also raise banners at the company's doorstep to protest against Motorola's "violent" layoffs, according to internal staff.

Si Xuan, the product PR manager for Motorola Mobile China, said the company's layoffs were underway, making it inconvenient to comment on what some employees said.

A senior executive at a U.S. foreign company said Sina technology Google and Motorola are two companies with different corporate cultures, the communications industry is generally friendly to staff, Google may be more efficient, but believe that Motorola or Google before the layoffs have been communicated with the regulatory authorities, the behavior is also legitimate compliance.

It is reported that Motorola China has been told to be cut staff, in early September the company will organize a job fair to help employees re-employment.