{"id":251243,"date":"2025-03-04T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/chinese-company-to-single-workers-get-married-or-get-out\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:58:06","slug":"chinese-company-to-single-workers-get-married-or-get-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/chinese-company-to-single-workers-get-married-or-get-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Company to Single Workers: Get Married or Get Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ideal worker at the Chinese chemical manufacturer, according to the internal memo, is hardworking, virtuous and loyal. And \u2014 perhaps most important \u2014 willing to have children for the good of the country.<\/p>\n

That was the message that the company, Shandong Shuntian Chemical Group, sent to unmarried employees recently, in a notice that spread widely on social media. It instructed them to start families by Sept. 30, or else.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you cannot get married and start a family within three quarters, the company will terminate your labor contract,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n

Shandong Shuntian was not the first company to try to dictate its employees\u2019 personal lives amid rising concern about China\u2019s plummeting marriage and birth rates. Weeks earlier, a popular supermarket chain had told its staff not to ask for betrothal gifts, to lower the cost of weddings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n