A MAN in China’s Jiangsu province who was fired after an app on his phone showed that he had walked 16,000 steps on one of his sick days has won a wrongful dismissal case against his former employers, reported China Press.
The court noted that step counts on the WeChat app could be influenced by factors other than walking, adding that the 16,000 steps recorded on March 18 did not prove the man’s foot was fine.
As a result, the dismissal was deemed unlawful, and the company was ordered to compensate the employee.
> After a 30-year-long search, a father from Jiangxi, China, has finally found his son who had been abducted as a child, thanks to help from the police, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The ordeal began in 1995, when Liang Sanshou and his wife were working in Xiamen, Fujian. Their two-year-old son vanished after being out of sight for just three minutes.
Since then, Liang had travelled to over 200 cities, covering 600,000km and wearing over 40 pairs of shoes in his quest to find his son.
On Oct 28, Liang announced on social media that the police had finally found his son. “All the waiting and suffering have been worth it,” he wrote.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
