Recently, Blue Ocean Hotel Group, a well-known catering company in Shandong Province, has been exposed to the problem of arrears of employees' wages, which has attracted widespread attention.
On October 12, an employee of Blue Ocean Hotel Group posted on the official website of the Dongying Municipal Government in the "Interaction between the Government and the People" section: "Blue Ocean Hotel has not paid wages for more than four months, and it is really not easy to be a waiter... Blue Ocean Hotel is not unprofitable, during the National Day, business is good after the opening of the epidemic, why can't you pay salaries? ”
On October 16, the Dongying District Government replied to this, saying that the labor law enforcement and supervision department of Dongying District has always attached great importance to the problems existing in the Blue Ocean Group, and has issued an order to Shandong Blue Ocean Hotel Management Co., Ltd. to correct the order, "The Blue Ocean Group is raising funds to gradually solve the problem of arrears of wages".
In addition to the above-mentioned complaints about wage arrears, in the interactive communication section of the above-mentioned website, an employee said: "From the beginning of the job to the time of resignation, a total of 30 months of bonuses have never been paid. Among them, from April to December 2020, a total of 9 months of bonuses were deposited in the form of Blue Ocean Group's "Gain Fund" for 6 months, which expired in December 2021, but have not yet been paid; During his tenure and after leaving his job, he applied for the 2020 bonus many times without success. Another employee left a message saying that he served as a training manager at the training center of Shandong Blue Ocean Hotel Group from February 2017 to March 2020, but did not pay social security to him during his employment.
According to public information, Blue Ocean Group was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Dongying City, Shandong Province. Blue Ocean Group has seven major sectors: Blue Ocean Hotel Management Company, Haiqin Supply Chain Company, Blue Ocean Ecological Agriculture Company, Wuhua Tianbao Company, Blue Ocean Catering Service Co., Ltd., Blue Ocean Vocational School, and Blue Ocean Engineering Corporation. At present, it has more than 80 mid-to-high-end hotels in Shandong, Beijing, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Hainan and other places, with nearly 20,000 employees.
Blue Ocean Hotel Group is also the "President Unit of Shandong Hotel Association", "Vice President Unit of China Hotel Association", the first batch of "Shandong Famous Service Brand" enterprises, "Key Service Enterprise of Shandong Province" and was included in the list of "High-end Brand Cultivation Enterprise of Shandong Service Industry" in 2020.
The official website of Blue Ocean Hotel Group also shows that from June to September this year, Blue Ocean Hotel Group, which is responsible for the operation and management of Tianniu Blue Ocean Junhua Hotel, Chengde Blue Ocean Hotel, and Zouping Blue Ocean Royal Hotel, three hotels were opened for operation. In August this year, Blue Ocean Hotel Group also signed a contract with Shandong Yinglong Construction Co., Ltd. for the Jining Blue Ocean Junhua Hotel (Jiaxiang) project.
A number of projects have been put into operation and management, why does Blue Ocean Hotel Group have the problem of wage arrears? Unknown. However, public information shows that many companies under Blue Ocean Hotel Group have also defaulted on taxes.
According to the information disclosed by the Dongying Municipal Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation on July 25, Dongying Blue Ocean Yuhua Hotel Co., Ltd. owes 2.9558 million yuan in taxes, and the tax arrears are value-added tax, and the balance of tax arrears of Shandong Blue Ocean Hotel Management Co., Ltd. is 1.8142 million yuan, and the tax arrears are enterprise income tax. According to the industrial and commercial registration data, the above two enterprises are controlled by Blue Ocean Hotel Group.