{"id":108263,"date":"2021-01-13T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=108263"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:06:59","slug":"huawei-employees-face-sack-for-marrying-a-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/huawei-employees-face-sack-for-marrying-a-european\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei employees &apos;face sack for marrying a European&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Marrying a European or applying for citizenship is a sackable offence for Huawei employees and deemed a \u2018betrayal\u2019, investigation finds<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Operatives in Europe are recalled or sacked for putting down roots, workers say<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Huawei is said to be anxious that its employees should remain under Chinese law<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Company&#8217;s presence in Europe is politically sensitive because of 5G spying row\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Employees at Chinese tech giant Huawei face the sack if they marry a European or apply for citizenship in the West, an investigation has found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huawei operatives stationed in Europe will be summoned back to China &#8216;as quickly as possible&#8217; if they breach the policy and dismissed if they fail to return, according to the Daily Telegraph which says that putting down European roots is &#8216;seen as a betrayal&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The controversial telecoms firm &#8211; which insists it does not take orders from China&#8217;s Communist rulers &#8211; is said to be anxious that its workers should remain subject to Chinese law and to stop them leaking sensitive information overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huawei also tries to stop its employees from settling down by moving them to a new country every five years, sources at the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/13\/07\/37943526-9141699-image-a-1_1610524786763.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Huawei is said to want its employees to remain subject to Chinese law (pictured, women walking past a Huawei store in Beijing)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huawei&#8217;s presence in Europe is politically charged because of the fears raised by Western governments that Beijing will use the firm&#8217;s technology for espionage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Huawei has always denied it would spy for Beijing, a national security expert said the employee rules undermined its claim not to be a &#8216;state agency&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;These are stipulations that no normal commercial company would make of its employees and that is alarming and disturbing,&#8217; Professor Anthony Glees said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It would seem to me to contradict the market interest of the company which is to sell its kit, not give people the impression that it\u2019s some kind of state agency.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>An employee handbook seen by the Telegraph says the rule applies to Chinese expats who take up citizenship in Europe or get married to an EU resident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If they fail to return, they will be deemed to have &#8216;breached their employment contract&#8217; and ordered to &#8216;resign from the company or its subsidiary&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The internal atmosphere at the company is that if you marry a local person and get citizenship rights then this is seen as a betrayal,&#8217; one former Huawei worker said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another expat said he was kicked out of the firm after 10 years&#8217; service in 2019 after his manager discovered he was planning to marry a European woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The employee said he believed Huawei was trying to stop its workers from &#8216;using the company as a tool to emigrate to Western Europe&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/13\/08\/37943528-9141699-image-a-3_1610524848032.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Huawei has always denied taking orders from China&#8217;s Communist Party rulers (pictured, Chinese president Xi Jinping at a Communist meeting on Monday)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huawei claimed in response to the story that the policy was &#8216;no longer valid&#8217;, saying that taking up residency in Europe was a &#8216;personal matter&#8217; for employees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The firm added that the policy had never been in place in the UK.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rotating people between overseas postings is &#8216;very popular with employees who value the rich mix of experience,&#8217; a spokesman said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huawei says it has more than 13,300 employees in Europe including at 23 research and development sites, but its presence has become a heated political issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, the US has pressured its allies to cut Huawei out of their 5G mobile networks because of fears of espionage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US officials have said that Huawei is duty-bound by Chinese law to spy for the Communist Party through alleged &#8216;backdoors&#8217; in its technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huawei maintains that it &#8216;has never and will never covertly access telecom networks, nor do we have the capability to do so&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Britain fell in line last year with Boris Johnson announcing that Huawei equipment would be banned from the 5G network by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The U-turn last July was welcomed by the US State Department but condemned as &#8216;groundless&#8217; 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