{"id":91214,"date":"2025-03-04T22:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/get-married-or-get-fired-chinese-companys-new-policy-sparks-fury-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:52:21","slug":"get-married-or-get-fired-chinese-companys-new-policy-sparks-fury-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/get-married-or-get-fired-chinese-companys-new-policy-sparks-fury-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Get married or get fired&#8217;: Chinese company\u2019s new policy sparks fury | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"flex items-center text-center\"><figcaption class=\"text-3 font-sans uppercase mr-3 whitespace-no-wrap\"><span class=\"ls-art\">Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article<\/span><\/figcaption><audio class=\"h-5 w-60 sm:w-80 rounded-none\" preload=\"metadata\" controlslist=\"noplaybackrate nodownload\" id=\"tts\" controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/attachments\/speech_20250304173800121-tI3Xz.mp3\"\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A Chinese company, Shuntian Chemical Group, faced backlash and official scrutiny after issuing a controversial notice that required unmarried employees to marry by September 2025 or risk termination.<\/p>\n<p>The company, based in Shandong province, stated in the notice that values such as &#8220;diligence, kindness, loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness&#8221; should guide employees\u2019 personal lives, with marriage and children seen as essential to embodying these values.<\/p>\n<p>The notice instructed all single or divorced employees aged 28-58 to get married by September 30, 2025. Employees failing to meet this deadline would face consequences, including being required to write self-criticism letters by March and possibly being fired after a review in June.<\/p>\n<p>The policy was designed to encourage older unmarried employees to marry, according to company representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The local human resources and social security bureau intervened, pointing out that the company\u2019s notice violated labor laws.<\/p>\n<p>Following the intervention, the company withdrew the directive. China\u2019s declining birthrate, worsened by the one-child policy that ended in 2016, has led to a population decline, with deaths exceeding births for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite government efforts to encourage marriage and childbearing, the number of registered marriages continues to drop, reaching just over 6.1 million in 2025, down from 7.68 million in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article A Chinese company, Shuntian Chemical Group, faced backlash and official scrutiny after issuing a controversial notice that required unmarried employees to marry by September 2025 or risk termination. 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