Chapter 822 Large-Scale Layoffs

In the Future Group Building, Jiang Chen came to the company to work as usual.

It has been two weeks since the funeral of the four soldiers, at least Koro Island has returned to calm, at least the tourists who came to the island can no longer feel the tense atmosphere before. The only difference is that the security around the airport and terminal has been strengthened a lot. The number of patrol drones stationed near the Future Man Building has also doubled as usual. Future Heavy Industry has been recruiting people, and the production line of the arsenal in the Anga Island Industrial Park has been in constant rotation.

Walking into Jiang Chen's office, Xia Shiyu gently placed a stack of documents on the corner of the table.

"The company's financial report came out last month, don't you plan to read it?"

"Just tell me if it's positive or negative."

"Last month, the company's total revenue was 4.7 billion US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 137% compared with the previous month. If the situation does not improve next month, it may fall again by about 45 points," Xia Shiyu paused, and then said, "After all, we lost all of Europe."

Jiang Chen picked up the financial report and looked through it.

"What good advice do you have?"

"Lay off staff in the European branch." Xia Shiyu said without hesitation.

"It may cause a brain drain." Jiang Chen did not agree with this point of view.

"The high-level and technical staff will retain their normal salaries, and the grass-roots staff will stay without pay. This will cut a lot of expenses for us. I don't deny that the Future Group can indeed support these employees, but if we lose the European market for a long time, we must Make a longer-term plan. It is not even ruled out to temporarily close the European branch, keep only one office to maintain patents and trademarks, and relocate the entire company's top management to Penglai City or Koro Island headquarters."

Xia Shiyu's judgment was not wrong.

She is based on the judgment made by Future People Group. If the European Commission is determined to fight against the Future Group to the end, then the Future Group will be unable to move forward in the European market, and there is basically no way to fight back.

There are international precedents for this.

In the second half of 2013, the European Commission launched anti-dumping investigations on three Huaguo photovoltaic companies. Even though the EU's decision at that time lacked enough legal basis and violated the spirit of free trade advocated by Western countries, the sanctions were eventually implemented.

Affected by this, three photovoltaic companies were forced to withdraw from the agreement and were imposed a high tariff of 47%. After the verdict came out,

Two photovoltaic companies, Zhongsheng and Yuhui, announced that they will no longer ship from China to Europe, and will shift the focus of the market to China, Japan, and South Korea.

If the resistance comes from the policy side, then the company has nothing to do.

Since you have to leave sooner or later, it is better to leave simply, lay off hundreds of thousands of people directly, and leave with executives and technical talents.

Seeing that Jiang Chen didn't make a decision, Xia Shiyu sighed and continued.

"At this stage, the nutritional mixture of Future Human Biotechnology is being investigated by the European Food Safety Authority, and the results of the investigation will be released in a week. Judging from the current situation, although Tao Ming has continuously held press conferences, claiming that there is no problem with the nutritional mixture, even He drank two bottles on the spot, but the final investigation result may be against us."

If it was in the past, Jiang Chen would have patted the table and stood up, greeted the ancestors of the European Commission first, and made a decision on layoffs.

But now, he was surprisingly calm.

Although the result is the same.

"Issuing new country visas to executives and technicians, as well as settling allowances. Those who are willing to follow the job transfer will have a salary increase of 20. Those who are not willing to follow the job transfer will be given two years of paid leave first."

The tax rate in the new country is different from that in Europe, which has high taxes and high benefits. Even if the wages remain unchanged, these European employees who immigrate to the new country can get much higher wages than those working in Europe.

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Chen paused for a moment, crossing his fingers on the table.

"Except for Future People Bank, all 3.15 million grassroots employees of the group's subsidiaries in the EU will be laid off!"

With 3.15 million employees, Future Group’s wages alone are close to 1 billion US dollars every month. Layoffs are commonplace in the capitalist world, and the Future Group will not be blamed in any way morally.

However, the EU countries may feel uncomfortable. After all, there are more than 300,000 unemployed people all of a sudden, even if it is distributed to all countries, it will not be very comfortable. This is the case in high-welfare countries, where the unemployed have to be supported by the government.

"As for the UK, let's wait and see for now." Jiang Chen continued.

The United Kingdom is no longer in the European Union, and it has not responded to the butcher knife swung by the Freemasons for the Future Human Group for the time being. However, Jiang Chen doesn't care if the UK also takes action against the Future Group, since he has already given up on the European market anyway.

At least not until the Freemasonry collapsed, and he wasn't planning to return.

"yes."

Xia Shiyu nodded, turned and left the office.

The European Commission is feasting and slaughtering the Future Group. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the EU is determined to copy Jiang Chen's "home" in Europe. However, just three days before the results of the investigation into the safety of nutritional supplements came out, Future Group suddenly announced that its businesses would withdraw from Europe, lay off 3.15 million employees, and retain only two offices in France and Germany to deal with legal issues. Remaining problem

After receiving this news, the European Commission, which was in a meeting to discuss how to deal with Future Group, suddenly fell silent.

The affairs commissioners here look at me and I look at you, and opened their mouths, but no one said a word for a long time.

Sitting at the top of the conference table, Juncker, the current president of the European Commission, mused to Lin Ling for a while, then tapped the notebook with a pen, breaking the silence on the conference table.

"Does the discussion need to continue?"

"Layoffs? 320,000? Are they crazy?" The affairs commissioner from Germany was in disbelief at the news.

After all, one-third of Future Group's employees are concentrated in Germany, if the news is true. Then just in the last second, more than 100,000 unemployed people were added to Germany.

"It seems that they are real." The French commissioner looked at his watch, then closed the pen cap and notebook, "It seems that the meeting can be ended early, we won, and the Future Group ran away from Europe with their tails between their legs, thank God , this errand is finally over."

He also faced a lot of pressure when he voted for the series of investigations conducted by the Future Group.

People are not as easy to fool as they seem. A series of measures by the European Commission clearly bear the strong color of local protectionism. Perhaps the entrepreneurs are happy to see the loss of such a competitor, but in the eyes of those who have a good impression of the Future Group, this kind of behavior is not as popular as when they investigated the Huaguo photovoltaic company.

After all, ordinary people don't come into contact with photovoltaic equipment every day, but they definitely use r mobile phones and the world's only neural access device, the Phantom Helmet, every day.

Even if this is the order of the Freemasonry, it is the members who voted and the government behind each member who voted for it that needs to withstand the pressure of public opinion.

"Then the meeting is dismissed."

The commissioners from various countries left the table one after another. Although they won, for some reason, there was no happy expression on their faces.

When leaving the venue, German Affairs Commissioner Flamon made two phone calls, one to Mr. President and the other to an old friend in the Freemasonry. When he returns to Germany, I'm afraid some of him will be busy

Although it was true that he won, Flamont always had the illusion of being defeated.

Must be an illusion. To be continued.

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