By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-27 06:01:26 | Updated at 2025-01-28 01:56:19
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A Chinese company has been placed under official investigation after it gave consumer vouchers instead of money as salary to its employees, triggering online backlash.
A person from northeastern China’s Jilin province posted that the shopping centre he worked for, Motian Vitality City, gave its staff consumer vouchers as their salary.
Photos posted by the man on a social media platform showed the vouchers with values ranging from 10 to 500 yuan (US$1.4 to US$70).
Each voucher also has a unique number, just like banknotes.
“These are the salary amounts for my three months’ hard work,” he said.
The man said that other entities owned by the same parent company Dazhong Zhuoyue Holding Group, including real estate, property management and taxi companies, also gave the same vouchers to their employees.
