Multinational pharmaceutical enterprises in Chinas black gold debate.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Multinational pharmaceutical enterprises in China’s ‘black gold’ debate With ‘rigorous’ known global pharmaceutical giant Merck in China this year got him into a complex series of labor disputes: in September 2003, Merck Chinese company unilaterally fired Hangzhou, Guangzhou to work more than 20 Chinese vice president and medical representatives of area on the grounds that these employees ‘false claims on behalf of academic promotion of entertainment expenses’ (illegal for doctors to provide entertainment), in violation of the Merck company’s ‘standard guidelines for implementing the company’s business ethics’ ( English referred to as SOP). These are strongly dissatisfied with this dismissal of the employees said that they carried out conduct of business activities are consistent with Merck’s rules and regulations, carry out internal approval procedures of the Merck Sharp amp;amp; Dohme, Merck Chinese companies ‘trumped reason’ is to achieve the layoffs to avoid payment The real (MSD with all employees to sign time of the termination of labor contracts in 2024, once the layoffs the company will pay high compensation). Some dismissed workers have chosen to labor dispute arbitration, or directly to the MSD sue the court, so far, preliminary as well as the staff have all been in favor of First Instance dismissed. Merck did not expect layoffs in China is not only attracted a lawsuit and also faced criticism parties, recently questioned Merck’s report followed. As the Hangzhou MSD Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Beijing Office of the Senior Civil Affairs Officer Ding Yan-ning said: ‘Now we are in a crisis public relations headache. ‘7 16, Merck executives purposely some came to Guangzhou from Hong Kong to meet with the media, an attempt to clarify the truth about layoffs storm. 1 Merck Sharp amp;amp; Dohme-service staff are extremely puzzled to tell reporters: ‘This is every company’s job cuts will be through the normal things that I do not know