Jiang Li works as a labor dispute lawyer in a small law firm in the south of the city. The office is so small that when the printer rings, the mediation room next door can vibrate. She doesn't take on divorces from wealthy families, nor does she take on celebrities' reputation rights. She only takes on cases that workers think "forget it": owed overtime pay, unsealed offers, resignation orders that are induced to be signed, and access rights that suddenly disappear on the last day of the probation period.
One evening, intern Lin Xiaoman walked into the law firm holding a cardboard box and said that he had just been expelled from Xinghan Group because he "failed the internship assessment." The company was only willing to give her a transportation subsidy of 200 yuan and asked her to sign a confidentiality agreement. Jiang Li originally thought this was just a small case with a low price and scattered evidence, but she saw something was wrong from the offer subject, salary flow, access control records and WeChat schedule: Xinghan Group promoted compliance with employment, but internally used a string of subsidiaries and outer shells to avoid responsibilities.
The intern layoff case is like a thin thread, first pulling out fake signatures, deleting group chat records, and threats of countersuit, and then involving financial reimbursements, commercial bribery, and executives blaming each other. Every time Jiang Li wins, Xinghan President Gu Chengzhou loses a layer of dignity. The story progresses in a long-term series. In the early stage, it mainly focuses on the cool points of labor arbitration, and in the middle and later stages, it turns to the black hole of group employment and capital chain.
