At midnight, the company informed the staff that they were off duty overnight and that they were in arrears for millions of wages.

An otherwise normal company was suddenly vacated overnight after a “full leave” notice was issued.

In recent days, a number of employees of Xinxian-Siamind IQ, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Mingde-Sik), who have been working at Mingde-Sik since their entry into office, have been paid and contracted to work with third-party companies, now that Mingde-Sik has no place to move and management has “disconnected” and they have no idea what to do with their rights.

At 11 p.m., 24 p.m., the company informed the company of “full leave”

The 25-day pay was gone.

On 25 May, early in the morning, Zhang Zhang, the Internet sales manager of Mingdei Shige, went to work on time at a company located in a building located in the city of Xian City, on the second road. As he approached his unit and was preparing to punch in the nails, he was surprised to find that the head of the company, who had been in the group, had somehow disappeared from the nails.

A “notice of internal review and suspension of the company's activities” published at 11.34 p.m. on 24 May, added to the small amount of confusion.

The circular states that the respondent's urgent notification of “a review of internal management irregularities, closing of the platform system log, review of data flow from the date of the immediate commencement of the review of internal management irregularities, closing of the platform system log, suspension of financial approval, immediate cessation of all external operations and “full leave” from that date until the end of the internal review was completed, was the result of the discovery, in the context of the recent Fund's audit and reconciliation of the due diligence of separating staff, of the company's significant financial whereabouts and serious internal management irregularities, which “has caused substantial serious damage to shareholders' interests and the long-term interests of its staff”. With regard to human resources issues, such as payroll, the circular stated that it was “by human resources notification by 29 May at the latest”.

When Zhang arrived at the company, he found his colleagues crowded in the corridor. The three main office glass doors on both sides of the corridor were locked, leaving a row of empty tables and chairs.

The company's three main office glass doors on both sides of the corridor have been locked, leaving a row of empty tables and chairs.

At the scene, staff members told journalists that they had seen the note from the nails and had seen it in the middle of the night, and that computers, microwaves and air conditioners had been removed. At present, not only have the “suspension” taken place, but even the company's office software, corporate Twitter, have been removed. Despite staff contact with the company's leadership, the telephone is either off or “in the middle of a conversation”. The sudden “disconnection” of management made them puzzled, and the failure to pay the outstanding salaries was even more depressing. The staff felt that even if the company conducted an internal audit, it should not affect and default on the payment of staff salaries.

“The company is paid 25 days a month, and now suddenly it moves away with an internal audit, `full-time leave', without pay, whether there is a real problem, as stated in the circular, or whether it did so deliberately and without pay? The company had been operating normally, and there was no sign of `vacating', and there was no contact with any of its leaders, which seemed strange.” Zhang stated that he had two months' salary arrears with the company, while some colleagues had more than $4 million unpaid.

"We have over 200 employees, and we have a rough calculation of the illegal wage of millions..." On the morning of 28 May, when journalists came again to interview the company site, employees, mid-level employees and even cleaning officers of the company claimed that their salaries had been unpaid. And looking at the company's nails has been “empty”. As at the same date, the number of readers of the “notices” sent by the company showed that 213 had read and 5 had not.

According to the building's property staff, Minder Shigeon entered the building in July last year, but the landlord had to be asked about the circumstances and when the lease was due, as the lease was with the owner.

Subsequently, the journalist found Mr. Rue, the landlord of Mindeji, who, according to him, rented approximately 1,000 square metres of office space for the company at a monthly rent of 50,000, for the period from last August to December. Today, however, the company has been in arrears for three months, about $150,000, “receiving the rent many times, each time the person in charge says he wants to apply to the head office, but then he dies”.

The company was a market regulator last year.

Listed as “business anomaly”

In front of the Ming Dynasty Company, journalists saw that the company ' s name, which was facing the glass door and had been placed on the front wall, had disappeared, while a number of signs and a flag on an office wall had not been removed. According to the multiple leadership cell phone numbers provided by the staff, the journalist made one call, either without or without a call, or without any service being suspended. The reporter then called Mr. Roux, the head of the company he was looking for, every time he asked for rent, but the phone was always “in the middle of a conversation”. As of the time of dispatch, journalists had made several telephone calls and had not been connected.

During the interview, the company employees Liu, Xiao Gae, Chu and Song made presentations, all of them doing online course sales at Ming Dejiang, but when they entered the company, they entered into a contract of employment and paid social security contributions to a company in Tianjin. The employees also stated that the contracts they had entered into had been written by text, that they were not subsequently able to see their own contracts and that they were not yet retained. It is also alleged that, in addition to the salary paid by Tianjin ' s company, a single salary in April this year was paid by a company in Salt City. Journalists look at the employment contracts offered by individual employees, as well as “pay confirmation letters” and several micro-transmittances at the time of entry on duty.

According to a search by journalists for business and industry information, Ming Dejie Company was established in September 2024 and registered as one of the 14th floors of Building B, Goosei Road, Xian City. Journalists went to their place of registration and found that their address was another company. The head of the company, Li Chiu, told the journalist that shortly after its establishment in June 2024, the company provided registered address services to MSMEs, and that Mind Shigeki had placed the address of the company, which was an incubator; he indicated that the cost of its annual dependency was $1,000, and that, after the first year, the fees were renewed. As the company also did not know where Ming Dynamite was now, the company ' s staff contacted a finance firm that had provided services to Ming Dynamite to inquire if the whereabouts of Ming Dynamite could be traced, but to no avail.

It's an eye-to-eye view of the APP screenshot.

In fact, as early as 23 October 2025, the Market Supervision Authority of the Gooseta District of Xi'an City classified it as “business anomaly” in the business information of Ming Dejie.

In an interview with a journalist, Mr. Zhang, the head of a 30-person sales team managed by Minder Shigeki, stated that he did not know what was wrong with the company. However, on 15 May this year, when he met with one of the company ' s leaders in Beijing, he was asked to disband the team, but he considered that the company had not paid its employees and had failed to do so.

In March this year, Mr. Zhang explained that the Manpower Department of the company had sent a single text message to the employee to sign a third party and to change the subject of work, and many had done so at the time; as for social security, when they entered the job, they would ask everyone, if they were willing to pay, they would have five insurances and no money; and if they had given up voluntarily, they would have promised to pay $500 a month.

As of 29 May, a number of employees stated that they had not received any notice from the company regarding the payment of salaries. However, at more than 4 p.m. on the same day, there was again a communiqué issued by Minder Shigeki, stating that it was still communicating with shareholders and that the review of the company ' s finances was continuing without any reference to the salaries of its employees.

Currently, some of the employees have reported and complained to the Labour Inspectorate of the Bailiwick and to the Market Supervision Department.

Counsel.

There are a number of strategies to protect the rights of employees:

Administrative complaints + criminal reporting + labour arbitration

On the issue of rights protection, a lot of employees are in trouble. Despite the fact that the company has been carrying out credit cards and working at the Mingdeji Company, the labour contract was not signed with the company, and the wages were not paid by the company, and the employees did not know what to do.

In response, journalists interviewed Shaanxi-Jan-Jiang Senior Partner and Senior Lawyer Wong. In his view, such a large number of workers were on collective leave, were in large arrears and were already in serious group labour disputes. In previous cases, a situation similar to that in which the internal audit was used as a full-time leave was likely to relate to the transfer of assets and the evasion of obligations.

“The company rotates contracts and wages between employees and a number of companies, but the day-to-day work, such as nailing cards and working arrangements, is carried out under the same physical subject, which is legally referred to as mixed work.” In accordance with article 3 of the Supreme People ' s Court ' s Interpretation (ii) on the Law Applicable to the Trial of Labour Disputes, workers are replaced or used in the same employment by several related units. In the absence of a written contract of employment or confusion in the subject matter of the contract, the court confirms the labour relationship by combining the working hours, content and payment of remuneration, and the workers may request those related units to share the responsibility for payment of remuneration, benefits, etc. This means that employees may still require joint and several liability from the companies in which they actually work, as well as from all affiliated companies that have been contracted and paid.

In terms of specific rights, Wong Chongqing suggested that attention be paid to the collection of evidence, “it is not enough to nail a card, but to form a chain of evidence”. In his view, while nailing the card was the core evidence, in order to prevent the company from canceling accounts or denying data, it was necessary to immediately preserve the evidence, such as by immediately recording the screen, keeping the intercepts (including personal information, months of attendance, approval records, etc.) and, if it was available for log-in, to proceed as soon as possible through the notary public. At the same time, all signed labour contracts, bank flows (remarked “wages”) made by different companies and records of instructions given by the management of the community should be promptly collected, all of which support the fact of mixed employment. In addition, employees should collect evidence of unpaid salaries and keep and photograph the company's “full internal audit leave” notice, which can directly prove that the company unilaterally stopped providing labour conditions, not staff absenteeism.

Huang Chong Zheng noted that if a mere lengthy arbitration process is taken, there may be a risk of a company moving assets, so that a three-pronged strategy of “administrative complaints + criminal reporting + labour arbitration” can be chosen, and between three and five staff representatives can be quickly selected to file a complaint directly with the local Labour Security Inspectorate of the City of Xi'an. The local social welfare bureau is consulted during the period to see if the conditions are met for the emergency working capital due to the applicant ' s Government ' s salary (the salary guarantee). Second, employees may report the matter directly to the public security organs with relevant evidence in order to hold the owner and the person responsible criminally liable. Finally, an application for arbitration is made to the Labour Disputes Arbitration Commission of the jurisdiction in which the company's office is located in order to confirm the labour relationship and recover the unpaid salary.” At the time of the application, the companies that actually worked, all the companies that had signed the contract and the affiliated companies that had paid their salaries could be listed as the respondent, requiring them to assume joint and several payment responsibilities. In the case of claims, payment of salary arrears, double pay differences (if applicable) for failure to sign a written labour contract and financial compensation for forced termination of the labour relationship due to the company's failure to pay full and timely remuneration may be required”.

Source: Chinese Business News.

Editor Van Can