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People changing jobs too often could be punished by China’s social credit system
China’s social credit already system bans discredited people from taking trains and airplanes
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Lots of things can hurt your social credit in China. Failing to repay your debts, plagiarizing academic articles and building a debt-laden tech empire and then fleeing to another country, to name a few random examples. One province now wants to add another “discredited behavior” that seems much more harmless: Switching jobs too often.
Zhejiang is pushing to build a local social credit system that will, among other things, deem residents a “discredited” person if they move from job to job too frequently, according to a local TV report.
“If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem,” Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company’s human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave. Ge didn’t specify how “frequently” is too frequent, but he said the upcoming system will put restrictions on both companies and individual workers.
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A hashtag of the Zhejiang official’s comments has drawn more than 60 million views on Weibo, with most users expressing criticism.
“I suggest that they make everyone who doesn’t get married and have babies discredited people,” reads one sarcastic comment.
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