Company makes underperforming employees eat live worms as punishment

A home furnishing store in China has introduced a bizarre punishment for its underperforming employees - making them eat live yellow mealworms.PHOTO: ST FILE

Shaanxi, China: A home furnishing store in China has introduced a bizarre punishment for its underperforming employees - making them eat live yellow mealworms.

Mr Zhao Xiaodong, a local lawyer, pointed out that forcing employees to eat live worms infringes upon the employees' rights and gives them just cause to report the violation to labour inspection departments. - Straits Times