At Huawei there is allegedly a “quasi-military corps spirit” in the sense of the company’s founder Ren Zhengfei, who preaches a rough management style in the sense of a “wolf spirit”, also in the European headquarters in Düsseldorf and other branches on the old continent. In doing so, the Chinese network supplier is sometimes violating labor law requirements. This is written by a research alliance supported by the Signals Network, founded by media patron Gilles Raymond.

Huawei calls itself as a “top employer” and comes up with orchids in the Quartier am Rhein, which is also known as the “small Chinese embassy”. This is reported by netzpolitik.org, the British Daily Telegraph , the Swiss Republic and the Spanish newspaper El Mundo . Voices from within reported, however, of a technology company “which seems to see its employees primarily as a raw material from which it wants to forge its own success”. The group moves Chinese employees like chess pieces and puts employees in front of the door at will.

Employees at their limits The researchers said they spoke to people “who have worked for the company in several European countries”. They described a company that is celebrated for its supposedly modern management philosophy, “but at the same time pushes employees to their limits”. There is talk of a “toxic corporate culture” and a “climate of fear”. An internal “posting and mobility management ordinance” regulates how Huawei determines parts of the private life of employees is, has already been negotiated several times about discrimination and dismissals, which should never have happened under current law. Every German manager looks over the shoulder of a minder from the Middle Kingdom. Chinese employees are “totally isolated”, complains Ulrike Saaber from IG Metall. A company spokesman, on the other hand, referred to “proven double-top structures”. He rejected allegations of discrimination. Huawei respects the Works Constitution Act and has done nothing to prevent the formation of a works council. However, there is still none.

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