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On February 28, the Consumer Protection Commission of Qingpu District of Shanghai issued a consumer warning that Weima Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Weima Automobile") may be operating abnormally and consumers are cautious to buy.

Qingpu District Consumer Protection Commission said that it is highly concerned about the nearly shutdown state of Weima car sales and maintenance, and has conducted a comprehensive investigation through complaint data analysis, door-to-door visit investigation and other ways. Since October 2022, Qingpu District Consumer Protection Commission has received complaints from nearly 90 consumers about Weima Automobile, reflecting the company's abnormal operation, closure of stores, inability to provide auto parts, stagnation of after-sales service, absence of manual customer service, and so on. As a result, they are unable to carry out normal maintenance after buying Weima cars, the car can not be repaired in time after failure, the signed battery replacement agreement can not be fulfilled, the customer service hotline has been in a busy state, and so on, the rights and interests of consumers have been damaged. According to the analysis, the purchase price of most consumers ranges from 100000 to 200000, and the purchase time is about 2018 to 2022. Because the company is unable to provide accessories, the problem that the car can not carry out normal maintenance and repair is the most concentrated among consumers.

For consumers' rights protection demands and the mediation work of the Consumer Protection Commission, Weima Motor currently takes an evasive attitude, responds passively, does not properly deal with consumer complaints, and does not come up with any substantive solutions. According to the above situation, the Qingpu District Consumer Protection Commission believes that the company has abnormal operation and lack of after-sale, which has seriously affected the normal use of consumers and damaged the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, which is a kind of untrustworthy behavior. to warn the majority of consumers of consumer risk: Weima Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. business address is 308 Xumin Road Long Weima Automobile Building, the company's sales and maintenance is almost in a state of shutdown. Consumers are advised to be cautious in buying Weima brand cars so as not to infringe upon their legitimate rights and interests. Qingpu District Consumer Protection Commission will continue to follow up and take corresponding measures to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

According to Tianyan information, Weima Automotive Technology Group Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries are currently facing a number of court announcements, including a number of refrigeration equipment, auto parts, machinery, advertising companies, and so on. In addition, 22.86 million of the shares held by Weima New Energy vehicle sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. have been frozen, the company has also been applied for pre-litigation property preservation, and assets worth about 130 million yuan have been seized and frozen.

At present, Weima Motor is on sale, including EX5, W6, E.5 and M7 models. According to the insurance figures, Weima Motor sold 34600 vehicles in 2022, down 2.83% from the same period last year. The highest sales model is Weima E.5, with 20300 vehicles sold for the whole year, an increase of 328.96% over the same period last year. As one of the former new power head car companies, Weimar is now besieged on all sides. A few days ago, the labor supervision department was involved in the investigation because of the sharp pay cut of Weima Motor, the unknown whereabouts of social security funds and the delay in the payment of wages.

It is reported that some employees pulled banners to protect their rights because Weima owed employees' wages. Pictures posted on the Internet showed that a number of Weima employees were suspected to have put up white banners in front of the Huanggang production base ("implementing Article 85 of the labor contract, requiring the payment of economic compensation", "it is shameful for the enterprise to default on wages, and who will take care of the interests of the employees?" return my hard-earned money "," Enterprise executives do not care about the interests of employees, how will they gain a foothold in society "), accusing Weima of long-term arrears of wages and infringing upon the interests of employees? Weimar is required to settle the arrears of wages and make financial compensation according to the labor cooperation.

In addition, there are Weima employees asking for wages online. Li Ruhua, an employee of Weimar's public relations department, posted on Weibo on February 25 and March 2, respectively, that he had been "suspended from pay" by Weimar, and that Weima had been in arrears in salary, social security and provident fund for more than three months. A series of issues such as fruitless communication and negotiation with senior management.

In response to the incident of unpaid wages of Weima cars, on February 27, a staff member of the Labor and Social Security Supervision Bureau of Huanggang City people's Bureau said that at present, the Municipal Labor and Social Security Supervision Bureau and the Municipal people's Society Department have set up a special class to intervene in this matter and are accepting matters relating to the protection of the rights of Weima employees.

In fact, since October last year, Weimar has been mired in negative news such as wage cuts, layoffs and debts, but wage arrears, suspension of social security and provident fund contributions are only the tip of the iceberg. Since 2023, news such as the shutdown of the Weima automobile factory and the closure of stores have appeared more frequently in the public view. At the beginning of the year, it was revealed that the retail end of Weimar was nearly paralyzed, a large number of directly operated exhibition halls were closed, and most dealers chose to withdraw their shops. After that, a # Huanggangweima factory almost became an empty city # quickly became the focus of the industry. Before that, the Weimar Wenzhou factory also stopped production because there were no orders for half a year. According to previous rumors, the factory will resume work around February 8, but the factory did not resume production at the specified time. At the same time, a number of media pointed out that Weima headquarters building will be moved out in arrears of rent.

On February 24, Weimar released the latest communication to its employees, in which Weima admitted that the company had encountered difficulties and would further sort out and optimize its organizational structure, reduce costs and increase efficiency in order to survive and develop. It is also mentioned that the salary of those who return to work and return to production will be guaranteed to the maximum extent possible, while the rest of the staff will be arranged unpaid leave and gradually resume work and return to production according to business needs. In addition, in view of the problems with the current social security contributors of Weima Automobile and the discontinuation of employees' social security contributions, Weima decided to adopt an alternative plan to re-pay employees' pension, medical care (including serious illness and childbirth), industrial injury and unemployment insurance. The above arrangements will be implemented from the payday of 25 February 2023 and will take effect with the attendance cycle corresponding to that payday. It should be noted that the communication time of the release ditch coincides with the payday of Weima Motor in February, and most of the employees have not received their wages and directly entered the state of unpaid leave. Very few employees are on the list of people who return to work and get paid in February.

Under the negative news of suspended pay, factory shutdowns, store closures, lawsuits and high financial constraints, Weimar's situation is already in jeopardy, and no one knows when what Shen Hui calls the "good news" will come. At present, for Weima, the biggest difficulty is still "how to live like an animal".

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