How much investigation authority does Foxconn’s 25-year-old employee commit suicide by jumping off a building？
Foxconn Technology Group in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, which was once exposed by the media as a "worker abuse incident", was once again pushed to the forefront of public opinion recently because Sun Danyong, a 25-year-old employee, committed suicide by jumping off a building. Young life has disappeared, leaving only a deep inquiry-what can be done to protect the personal rights and interests of workers?
Surveillance video recorded before and after suicide
Sun Danyong, 25, a native of Qujing, Yunnan Province, graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 2008 and worked for Foxconn.
At 1: 44 am on July 16th, Sun Danyong walked into Zhaoli Garden Community in Foxconn Dormitory, and went straight into Building A3. After arriving at the 12th floor, he turned left to the access window. The camera in the elevator recorded him holding the window sill of the passage and looking down on tiptoe. The surveillance video showed that the exact time of his suicide was 3: 33: 52 in the morning.
An iphone was suspected to be the latest N90 prototype, and Foxconn asked Sun Danyong to mail it to Apple, which was the missing one of the 16 iphone prototypes. Sun committed suicide by jumping off a building while being investigated by the company.
According to Sun Danyong’s self-report provided by Foxconn, Sun Danyong got it from the production line on the afternoon of July 9.
Iphone, after counting the quantity, was sealed with a secret seal. Because there was no supervisor to open the bill that day, it was temporarily stored and delivered the next day. At 5 o’clock on the afternoon of July 10, the sampler came, and Sun opened the carton and asked them to confirm the quantity themselves. At that time, because Busy Sun wasn’t there, when he came over, the pick-up man said there was one less. Sun Danyong ordered it again by himself, and there was indeed one missing. At that time, it was suspected that the prototype might have been lost on the production line. Sun searched the place where the prototype was put and the place where it was packed, but he still couldn’t find it. On July 11 th, I searched carefully and found no results. At 8 o’clock in the evening on July 13th, he told the supervisor.
The pressure is tantamount to being investigated by the police
After noon on July 15th, Sun Danyong was investigated twice by Gu Qinming, the head of environmental safety management department, a grass-roots department of the company. The first time was at noon on July 15th, and the second time was at 21: 00 on July 15th. The investigation methods mainly include talking and checking the scene, and later checking Sun’s personal room.
A few days ago, Sun Danyong’s college classmates called up the chat records of several hours before the incident, saying that Sun was illegally searched, confined and beaten while being investigated, which triggered a hot discussion on the Internet.
Gu Qinming, who is in the whirlpool of the Internet, has been suspended from work by Foxconn without pay and has been investigated by the police. Recently, he responded to the internet’s statement, claiming that Sun Danyong was not beaten and confined during the investigation. Sun himself proposed to search Sun’s home, and Sun committed suicide because of his psychological pressure.
On July 21st, the media disclosed the monitoring data of Sun Danyong during the first investigation and the second investigation of the environmental safety class, which showed that there was no picture of Sun Danyong being beaten and detained by the investigators of the environmental safety class. The surveillance video recorded what happened after Sun Danyong stepped into the office of the environmental safety class.
According to Sun Danyong’s girlfriend A Chun, at 3 pm on July 15th, she sent a message to Sun Danyong asking when she would come back for dinner, but she didn’t wait for a reply. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, she sent a message again, and Sun Danyong replied to eat after work. But after a while, Sun Danyong brought three colleagues (two men and one woman) back. When he entered the door, he said to search, but he didn’t find what he was looking for. Sun Danyong left with his colleagues again and asked her to eat first.
"Dear … something happened to me. Don’t tell my family. Don’t contact me … I’m really sorry …" When Ah Chun received this message, it was 1: 48 am on July 16th. She called Sun like crazy, but no one answered. Until 4 o’clock in the morning, the police found her.
The truth of the matter remains to be clarified.
Guo Taiming, president of Foxconn, said in response to Sun Danyong’s suicide incident: "If any employee is found to have improper behavior, please ask the group trade union to intervene in the investigation as soon as possible."
In response to the suicide of Foxconn employees, Apple said: "Employees should be respected."
However, how should enterprises respect employees, protect the personal rights and interests of workers and safeguard their dignity?
An expert from Shenzhen University pointed out that from the incident of Foxconn employees committing suicide, it can be seen that the personal rights of workers living in factories have actually been restricted and are in a relatively depressed state. As an ordinary employee, Sun Danyong was investigated by the factory, so we can see which is stronger and which is weaker between the employees and the factory. When the factory launched the investigation, Sun should have suffered a lot of pressure, which, to some extent, was tantamount to accepting a formal police investigation. But we can’t help asking, how much investigation authority does the factory have? How can the factory not infringe on the personal rights and interests of employees in the process of investigation?
It is suggested to strengthen supervision and give full play to the role of trade unions.
It is understood that in recent years, the media has constantly disclosed the terrible phenomenon of "sweatshops" in coastal areas, and it has been frequently reported that employees of enterprises have been slapped, punished and stripped, and wage arrears and overtime work are commonplace in "sweatshops".
The expert pointed out: "In terms of protecting the rights and interests of workers, society has already had too many debts. Who should protect the rights and interests of workers? Nothing more than the law, the government, the workers themselves and various social supervision forces. However, from the current situation, the cost of workers’ self-protection is too expensive and the ways are limited; Some local governments lack enthusiasm in protecting workers, but they are more enthusiastic in protecting the interests of enterprises; Although the legislative intent of the labor law is to protect workers, this phenomenon of’ failure’ of laws and regulations to protect the weak is not uncommon in real life. "
At the same time, the expert suggested that the supervision of enterprises by relevant government departments should be strengthened to prevent enterprises from using lynching, and at the same time, the role of trade unions in enterprises, especially large enterprises, should be brought into play to provide certain protection for the rights and interests of employees.
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