Chinese transport company keeps sick driver on payroll – even after he quits
Tang Jianguo says his kidney condition means he can’t work, and he doesn’t want to be a burden. But his former employer is having none of that
A transport company in eastern China has continued to pay a bus driver five years after he resigned over illness, according to a Chinese media report.
Tang Jianguo, his family’s breadwinner, quit his job rather than be a burden on his employer after he was diagnosed with a kidney condition called uraemia in 2012, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Friday.
His employer, Changzhou Longtu Tourism and Passenger Transport, based in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, offered to put him on lighter duties but Tang refused.
“I couldn’t do any normal work because of the illness. I couldn’t do anything even if I changed job ... I didn’t want to be a drag on the company,” he was quoted as saying.
The company’s then general manager Zhu Yaming decided to help Tang by putting 1,800 yuan (US$285) in the former employee’s bank account each month “for eternity”.