Company makes underperforming employees eat live worms as punishment


  • China
  • Tuesday, 15 Nov 2016

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 

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