‘Is your grandma your grandma?’: Chinese Internet firm demands staffer seeking leave prove relation to visit critically ill relative in hometown

An IT company employee was asked to prove her grandmother was ill when requesting leave to see her, then asked to prove it really was her relative. The woman blew the whistle on social media causing a backlash against the company for its unfair workplace leave policies. — SCMP

An Internet company in China is under fire for demanding an employee provide documentary evidence proving her grandmother is her actual grandmother.

The woman, surnamed Zhang, from Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, eastern China, recently learned her grandmother was seriously ill after a cerebral haemorrhage.