The company did rehire her in December 2011, but it transferred her from her position to a job in the company's factory, where she was monitored by two surveillance cameras, according to the court. If she wanted to leave her office, she had to fill out a written request to leave the premises.
It took a week before Zhang was again out of the company, which led to another round of lawsuits and labor arbitration.
Zhang's circumstances are not unheard of in labor cases, said Tang Fuqiang, a labor lawyer at the Shanghai office of the Beijing Yingke Law Firm.
"It is quite common for a company to make things hard on an employee after both of them have gone through several rounds of litigation. It is not against the law for a company to install video cameras in the office," Tang told the Global Times.
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