According to Reuters, the company has demoted two employees by one rank and reduced their monthly salaries by 5,000 yuan (approx $700).
Highlights:
Wishing Happy New Year to Huawei fans on Twitter proved not-so-happy for two of its employees. According to a report, two of the company employees have been demoted and their salaries have been slashed due to a mistake they did when they posted the new year wishes on the microblogging platform. What mistake? The Huawei employees wished their fans via iPhone on Twitter. By the time the tweet was deleted, it went viral and people took its screenshots.
In a memo accessed by Reuters, Huawei Vice President Chen Lifang slammed the employees responsible for the tweet, saying “the incident caused damage to the Huawei brand.
