An individual employed in the technology industry in China was dismissed from his job after a co-worker discovered that he was vacationing on a tropical island while he was on sick leave and was expected to be recuperating in bed.
According to a report by China’s National Business Daily (NBD), a man named Xu Moumou challenged his tech company’s decision to terminate his employment at Beijing’s Third Intermediate People’s Court. However, the court rejected his appeal in mid-April 2023.
Furthermore, Xu was also stripped of a 620,000-yuan (approximately Rs. 2.5 Crore) compensation that he had been awarded earlier. The conflict between Xu and his employer began in July 2019 when he applied for a two-week paid leave, which was denied by his manager due to work pressure.
Despite informing his manager that he had already purchased tickets for a vacation to Hainan, a southern island in China, with his child, Xu’s request for leave was not approved. It’s noteworthy that Xu was a long-time employee of the company, having worked there since 1998.
