With the development of new information technology, new forms of electronic evidence are being submitted to labor arbitration committees and courts. For example, in a case heard by the Haidian District Court in Beijing, a senior manager misinterpreted an employee’s WeChat post (Wechat is a social networking software that allows users to interact using texts, graphics, audio, and video) and terminated the employee’s employment contract by directly replying to the employee’s post in Wechat. The judge ultimately held that the manager’s reply within the WeChat software was an action by the company and that the termination was illegal. Therefore, employers, and their senior managers, should be vigilant of their actions on the Internet and social media. Also, because of the rapid spread of digital information, it is important to preserve related evidence through notarization before the final judgment.
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