Chapter 258 I Hope to See Them Leave as Quickly as Possible

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"President Zhang, this really shouldn't be done!" Xu Huan immediately advised against it. "How come it shouldn't be done? Are you saying my words carry no weight?" Zhang Menglong asked. "President Zhang, do you know how many employees we have in total at Silicon Moonlight headquarters on our island?" "I haven't looked into that, are there many?" Zhang Menglong asked nonchalantly. "Over 50,000! One-third of the employees, that's nearly twenty thousand employees. If they were all dismissed, just the severance pay alone would be a staggering amount!" "Oh, I knew that," Zhang Menglong also had some knowledge of the law. Normally, if a company wants to terminate employees, it needs to pay a penalty, which is related to the employees' length of service. The number of years they have worked is equivalent to the number of months of salary they need to be compensated. And most of these employees have a very long average tenure, at least three to four years. Zhang Menglong might have to pay tens of thousands in severance for nearly each employee. Twenty thousand people, that's several billion! "It's okay, however much it costs, just give them the money. I'm not short on cash!" Zhang Menglong said, "However, everyone who shouts about striking, directly blacklist them from entering Silicon Moonlight and any affiliated companies ever again!" "Furthermore," Zhang Menglong continued, "those who choose to stay, their salary will be increased by 30% from their current base, and this year's end-of-year bonus will double!" Upon hearing Zhang Menglong's words, Dai Yang's face suddenly changed. Those foreigners had given him and his union people a sum of money to lead the trouble, and with Dai Yang's prestige in the union, that was a very easy thing to do. Originally, Dai Yang thought that such a large-scale worker protest would put a lot of pressure on the board of directors, especially since the company was at such a critical juncture, and the shareholders wouldn't have the energy to deal with employees. There was a high likelihood that the company would succumb to the pressure from both sides and choose to collaborate with the Western suppliers, which was also Jarett and others' plan. But unexpectedly, Zhang Menglong did not play by common rules at all; he instantly decided to dismiss that one-third of the workforce and even raised the salary of the remaining ones.@@@@ Such a decision would cost more than a mere one or two billion. Even if he was rich, that was not a reasonable way to spend money! Discover exclusive tales on My Virtual Library Empire "President Zhang, you really need to think this through. Silicon Moonlight is a labor-intensive industry. If tens of thousands of workers leave, recruiting replacements won't be a simple task," Dai Yang said. "No problem, I can recruit employees from the entire island, even from all over Huaxia!" He really wanted to ask, if you're not here to make money, what exactly are you aiming for? "President Zhang, such a major project, the Land Bureau might not approve it," Xu Huan said with a troubled expression on his face. Building an airport, a subway, these are city-level plans, requiring extremely high-level authority to finalize these matters. "Leave that to me!" At this moment, Liu Qian, who had been silent until now, smiled and said. She took out her cellphone and looked up a number in her contact list. "Ms. Liu?" A middle-aged man's voice came through, sounding somewhat panicked and even a bit flattered! "Director Cai, there's a favor I need to ask you for help with." "Director Cai? Which Director Cai?" Everyone began pondering who this Director Cai, mentioned by Liu Qian, could be. After thinking it over, it seemed that in the whole of Treasure Island, there was only one Director Cai, but he was the director of the Land Bureau! The woman behind Zhang Menglong, through just one phone call, connected directly with Director Cai? What was her background? "Ms. Liu, you must be joking, please just tell me what you need," the voice humbly said. "I plan to build an airport near Silicon Moonlight, and would like to apply for a piece of land." "No need to apply! How big does it need to be? 100 hectares enough? If not, 200 hectares, 300 hectares are also possible!" Hearing this, everyone was dumbstruck. Hadn't Xu Huan just mentioned that obtaining land required going through numerous approvals? Yet here was Ms. Liu, making a single phone call, and on the other end, offers of land beginning at 100 hectares were readily made, even suggesting they could have as much as they needed. "Let's start with 200 hectares," Liu Qian said. Given Silicon Moonlight's scale, an airport of 200 hectares would be sufficient. "Okay, within three days, I'll have the approval documents sent to Ms. Liu's residence." "Thank you, Director Cai!" After finishing her conversation, Liu Qian hung up the phone without any courtesy. "Menglong, it's settled," Liu Qian told Zhang Menglong, then returned to her usual aloof demeanor. "Alright, Xu Huan, the recruitment is up to you to arrange," Zhang Menglong said, pointing at Dai Yang, "I want these people gone as quickly as possible!"

Chapter 258 I Hope to See Them Leave as Quickly as Possible

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