Dangers of WeChat for China Employers and Employees

With widespread use of WeChat in China (it is China’s leading multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app by far), both employers and employees need to be careful with what they do and say on there. Put simply, what you say or write on WeChan may be used against you in an employment dispute. There have been written Chinese employment decisions where an employer used evidence from WeChat (such as screenshots of an employee’s WeChat posts) to prove employee misconduct and to thereby justifying discipline/termination decisions (see here). And our China employment lawyers have been involved in many matters where WeChat communications were used to influence a settlement. Let’s consider a fairly recent case in Ningbo City. One day after 10 pm, a supervisor sent a WeChat message to an employee working as a store manager requiring the store manager provide the current month’s store sales data within ten minutes. The employee was pregnant at the…

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