Starbucks shares dissolved 107 managers after birth accountability management, the general manager was suspended from pay for a year

On September 7th, the Standing State Astronomy Lighting Co., Ltd. issued a notice stating thatAt the beginning of August, the company decided to deal with four managers due to the improper handling and significant impact of some of the job reductions at new universities, in which general manager Zhou Xiaoping with management responsibilities was discharged for one year, deputy general manager Li Tzu Aram with direct leadership responsibilities was adjusted for the division of labor and discharged for six months, human resources director Yu Zhi Ming was dismissed, and Minister of Human Resources Li Me was dismissed.

The company once again apologized to the relevant graduates and their families and society, and said it would learn lessons, improve recruitment plans and human resources management mechanisms. The incident has caused public attention because of the large number of recent graduates who were dismissed shortly after their employment or were required to relocate.

According to Starbucks, during the autumn 2025 and spring 2026 campus recruitment period, the company signed three-party agreements with a total of 440 university graduates in 2026.

In July 2026, the management of the company, based on follow-up orders and employment needs, "mistakenly made a decision to shift some newly employed classmates."In early August, the human resources department consulted 140 of the 372 newly employed graduates, and ultimately 33 retained their original jobs.107 people signed the termination agreementOf these 107 people, 75 undergraduate students, 32 master's graduate students; according to the division of positions, 39 people in R & D and technology, 60 people in production and manufacturing, 8 people in functional positions.

On the 25th of August, the Municipal People's Office thatAccording to the investigation, a total of 440 university graduates were recruited in 2026, with 107 of them withdrawing from labor contracts.The announcement noted that the company was "simple in the process of negotiations, lack of sufficient and effective communication, causing adverse effects", and the enterprise has apologized and made the suspension of the Human Resources Director.

The people's society department also said at the time that the city and district people's society departments at the two levels have carried out employment services, including holding university student recruitment meetings, directing suitable jobs and organizing one-on-one employment assistance.

Starbucks announced on September 7 that the two-level people's society department of Zhouzhou and the district has held three special university student recruitment meetings and directed 107 graduates to recommend suitable jobs. As of noon on September 7, at 12 pm, 71 of the 107 graduates have entered new units, 22 have passed interviews and received notice of entry, the remaining 14 are interviewing, matching employment needs or planning examinations.

The company also said it has paid financial compensation to the 107 graduates who signed the termination agreement, and compensated for a accommodation transport subsidy for graduates who frequently work abroad.But the outside world remains concerned about the specific procedures for firms to terminate labor contracts, whether graduates are losing their status and subsequent job search opportunities, and whether the compensation is sufficient to cover actual damage.

The controversy in this incident is not more than whether the enterprise apologizes, whether it punishes the managers, but also the school hiring commitments, labor contract protection and whether the vulnerable status of recent graduates is substantially guaranteed. The enterprise, based on changes in orders and demand for employment, centralized consultation of new graduates, compliance with the dismissal conditions and procedures stipulated by law, needs to be further clarified.

If some graduates, due to entry into employment, payment of social insurance or signing a termination agreement, affect their status, certificate examination, state-owned enterprise school recruitment and other opportunities, how the related losses are identified and compensated, should not be covered by internal accountability of the enterprise.

After the intervention of local regulation, whether internal accountability can be transformed into institutional reform, rather than ending the public opinion crisis with the punishment of individual managers, remains the focus of the follow-up of this case.

Starbucks is an A-share listed company, mainly engaged in car lighting development, design, manufacturing and sales. The event took place in the context of continued employment pressure and high-dependence of recent graduates on school recruitment opportunities. For young people who have just graduated, a school recruitment is not only an ordinary job opportunity, but also often related to household, rent, social insurance, recruitment status and subsequent career path.

Therefore, internal accountability cannot replace external regulation, nor can it solve the personal losses of graduates. Especially in the scenes of large corporate concentration, enterprises have obvious information advantages and negotiation advantages, and graduates are in the career beginnings stage, with limited capacity to negotiate when facing dismissal agreements, job adjustments and compensation schemes. Whether the supervisory department will then disclose more processing results, will determine whether the event stays at the crisis public relations level or becomes a case for normalizing the recruitment and labor contract management.