Luwang News on January 19 Since January 16, the only remaining Bayi store in Jingya has also been suspended, which can't help but trigger speculation among employees and cardholders about its full line of stores and exiting Jinan. On the morning of January 18, many employees of Jingya Bayi Store gathered in the store to ask for wages, and the most of them had been owed 10 months of wages, followed by many cardholders, who also wanted to return their cards and exchange cash before "people went to the empty building".
On January 18, the gate of the Jingya Bayi store was closed, and the holiday notice at the door showed that it was closed from January 16 to February 11. More than a dozen employees of the Bayi store gathered outside the side door of the parking lot and came to ask for a salary, "Only two or three months of salary, how can we go home for the New Year?" It is understood that the dozen or so salary seekers are all old employees of Jingya, and it is said that they are only a small number of employees who have been owed wages, and the total number of wage arrears can even reach nearly 300.
The reporter's on-site observation found that nearly half of the above dozen salary employees were around the age of fifty or sixty. An employee surnamed Zhao in his hometown of Liaocheng said he had been working in Jingya for 11 years, cleaning dishes in the back kitchen. Others are chefs, some are waiters. Mr. Zhao was owed about 20,000 yuan in wages, and it is said that the chef with the most arrears of wages was calculated to have 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.
Although the store said that the business was suspended before the holiday, the continuous business downturn and the previous closure of the Minghu store and the high-tech store did not reassure these employees. It is understood that since 2014, Jingya has been intermittently arrears in the payment of employees' wages, and since then, even if the Minghu store and the high-tech store have closed their doors, the problem of wage arrears has been delayed for a long time, and it has also triggered salary bargaining.
There are also many citizens who are also uneasy. On the 18th, during the reporter's interview, from time to time, some citizens came to the store to inquire about the return of the card, but the closed door of the store made them eat the "closed door soup". Mr. Liu, a cardholder, said that he still had a balance of more than 10,000 yuan in his card.
Around November last year, when The Jinan Times visited the Jingya Bayi store on the spot, its staff was still selling Chinese New Year's Eve meal reservations and stored value cards, and at that time they said that they would not be closed for the time being, at least not during the Spring Festival. But since then, an insider close to the top management of Jingya said that the closure of the Jingya Bayi store is almost a foregone conclusion, but the time has been delayed, "At first I heard that it was going to close in October, then it was changed to November, and then I said December." "Until now, the holidays are closed.
Because the store was closed and unattended, as of noon on the 18th, the salary-seeking employees and the citizens who returned the card had not found the relevant person in charge to respond to the appeal. In July last year, on the closure plan of The Jingya Bayi store, Zhang Guijin, vice president of the Jingya Food Group, said in an interview with other media that the only remaining Bayi store in Jingya would also close its doors, and would completely close the large stores and only do boutique small catering, at that time, its group was negotiating cooperation with other enterprises, and would introduce capital to repay the arrears of employee wages within the year. But now it appears that the plan has not materialized, at least in terms of paying off wage arrears. In the interview, some salary-seeking employees said that the store's previous statement was to give two months' wages as of January 26, and the rest was repaid in March and April. (Jinan Times)