Monthly working hours of more than 350 hours, simultaneously undertaking orders for public security guard clothes: the chain of labor responsibility

On September 14, X platform appeared the work hours, labor relations and reporting materials of the employees of the company. The material showed that the employees in question said that they were in office for more than 350 hours in August 2026, and accused the company of the existence of overtime work fees, social insurance, forced to leave the job by management methods, etc. Employees simultaneously published the "forced termination of labor relations notice", and said that it was reflected to the labor supervision department. This incident has a value of responsibility, not only because "work time is too long", but because the company has just been listed in a row for the Jinshu public security department procurement projects this year, multiple contract amounts total more than 50 million yuan. public finance procurement and enterprise labor compliance entered the same chain of responsibility.

What 350 hours mean: not the general "overtime", but working hours out of control

The employee's public August recruitment material shows that the length of working hours is more than 350 hours. Even by 31 days calculated, the average daily working time is more than 11 hours; if the rest day is deducted, the actual average daily working time is higher. China's Labor Law has clear restrictions on extended working hours, under normal circumstances, daily overtime should not exceed 1 hour, special reasons should not exceed 3 hours per day, and cumulative should not exceed 36 hours per month.

Existing public materials are evidence clues submitted by one of the employees, labor supervision or arbitration organs have not yet published the final determination, so the specific overtime number, the calculation of wages and social insurance payments still need to be formally investigated. But if the examination materials are true and complete, this work time scale has far exceeded the extent of delay permitted by conventional labor law, it is impossible to explain the past with the four words "production season".

* Employees have advanced disputes from verbal complaints to legal proceedings

The public material also includes the "Notice of Forced Termination of Labor Relationship." Employees said that they objected to the enterprise due to overtime fees, social insurance and other issues, and claimed that they were forced to terminate labor relationships.

In accordance with the structure of labor dispute processing, if there are circumstances in which the enterprise does not pay labor remuneration in sufficient amounts in accordance with the law, does not pay social insurance in accordance with the law, the worker may claim to terminate the labor relationship in accordance with the law and demand corresponding compensation.

The first level of the chain of responsibility is the management of the enterprise, and cannot push the problem of working time to the workshop or group

Open enterprise information shows that the registered address of Shimomachi Shields Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is located in Shimomachi Shields Economic Development Zone Scientific Road No. 119, the legal representative is Han Yumi, the registered capital of 1.206.6 billion yuan.The company has long been engaged in the production of uniforms, shirts, clothes and police clothing.

Enterprise working hours, wages, social insurance payments are not matters that ordinary workshop managers can decide independently. The schedule system, human costs, wage accounting, social insurance declaration and overtime approval are part of the company's governance and human resources system, so the legal representatives, company management, human resources and production management departments jointly assume system responsibilities.

If the labor supervision finally confirms the existence of long-term overtime work or delayed labor remuneration, it cannot only deal with a certain group leader, but should be traced back to who formulates production indicators, who approves schedules, who audits wages, who decides social insurance payments, and whether the enterprise has long-term ability to deliver overtime work.

This year, the company just received tens of millions of orders from the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department.

Jiangsu Province public resources trading platform showed that in May 2026, Jiangsu Province Public Security Department was placed in material procurement package 3, the amount of the bid was about 223.1 million yuan; in June, the other batch of procurement package 1 and package 5, the amount was about 22.89 million yuan and 6.23 million yuan respectively.

This leads to a second level of public responsibility. Government procurement can not only control prices, delivery capabilities and product quality, but also must consider whether suppliers rely on illegal overtime, insured or low labor costs to complete public orders. If a supplier has serious labor disputes within its production system while getting large amounts of security assets, the procurement authorities and government procurement regulatory systems should include labor compliance in the performance risk assessment.

From the company to the procurement authority, the chain of responsibility can be clearly divided

Responsibilities that can currently be established include:

• Han Yue Me: the legal representative listed in the public information, the corporate governance and management responsibility according to law;
• the company's human resources and production management department: responsible for scheduling, wage accounting, check-in and social insurance, is the specific labor management responsibility link;
• local labor security supervision agency: employees have submitted reporting materials and are responsible for the investigation of salary, working time and social insurance related illegal claims according to law;
• Jiangsu Provincial Public Administration and government procurement implementation system: as an important purchaser, the supplier's ability to meet the requirements and compliance risk has public procurement responsibility;
• government procurement supervision department should: pay attention to whether public funds are indirectly rewarded to obtain the advantage of the price of

*War-wear orders should not be based on overtime work by workers in particular.

It does not produce ordinary consumer clothes, but includes public service clothes, uniforms and other public uniforms of public security organs.The government procurement funds come from public finances, and its supply chain should have higher compliance requirements than ordinary commercial orders.

If a company that manufactures uniforms for law enforcement agencies is eventually found to have committed a serious violation of working hours or wages, it will form a very ironic conflict of responsibilities: The uniforms worn by public institutions that maintain legal order cannot be manufactured in a way that violates labor laws.

This is also the reason why the case cannot be dealt with only according to "a worker-to-company labour dispute." Public procurement connects enterprise production conditions with government responsibilities, and the purchaser can not only accept the finished product, but is completely blind to the working conditions behind the finished product.

The focus is not on the “company response,” but on whether wages, working hours and public procurement records are correct.

The next most critical evidence nodes have been very specific: complete inspection original data in August, employee wage flow, overtime approval records, social insurance payment records, labor contracts, and production plans and delivery nodes ordered by the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Administration in the same period.

Once these materials match each other, it is possible to judge whether the so-called 350 hours in the job is actually an individual situation, or the systematic sequence formed for the rush of government orders. If the delivery cycle of over-long hours and public security procurement is highly overlap, then the corporate management responsibility and public procurement responsibility cannot be cut off.

China will continue to record the head of the enterprise, the outcome of labor supervision processing, the performance of procurement contracts and subsequent arbitration documents.For workers, working time is not an abstract number; for public institutions, procurement is not over as long as the goods are delivered on time.