Two days later, New Flyer's factory on the outskirts of Banta City welcomed a special guest.
"Young miss Seveni, please take a look. These two workshops are our New Flyer's current factories and the building that is currently under construction is our new magic machine workshop.
According to the deadline manager Riley gave, it should be ready to use within the month. "Xu Yi stood in the square outside the workshop and introduced it to Seveni beside him.
When Wayne Riley on the side heard Xu Yi mention his name, he immediately revealed a smile and said with a nod, "Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, it should be ready at the end of the month."
Seveni looked at the magic machine workshop that was less than a thousand square meters and then looked at the new workshop that was clearly ten times bigger. She knit her brows and said, "Such a large building, it can be finished in a single month?
Even if it's finished, it can't be used this quickly, right?
Chairman Xu, aren't you in too much of a rush? "
Xu Yi gave a shrug, "If it wasn't for manager Riley insisting on guaranteeing the quality of the project and not tarnishing the Amra Guild's reputation, I would have even asked him to finish this project in the middle of the month."
Manager Riley heard Xu Yi unintentionally praise him and manager Amra, so he was filled with joy.
Based on how serious and respectful Xu Yi was, although this young miss Seveni looked very young, she must be someone with quite a bit of status. If he could leave a good impression on her, whether it was manager Riley or the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, it would be a good thing.
"Chairman Xu, although his majesty's request is quite tight, I hope that you won't feel too much pressure because of this and cause an accident.
If the workers are hurt because of this, his majesty and I will feel unsettled. "Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a sincere look.
Xu Yi was a bit surprised. He looked at Seveni and found that her expression was very sincere, it didn't seem like she was being polite. After thinking about it, he said with a nod and a smile, "Relax, young miss Seveni, I care very much about the safety of my workers.
Also, I'm very confident in the abilities of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce and Manager Riley. There shouldn't be any accidents. "
Manager Riley immediately returned the favor, "Young miss Seveni, you don't know this, but when it comes to the treatment of employees, New Flyer is the best.
Not to mention that there isn't a single company in our Banta City that can compare, there isn't a single company in the entire Lampari Kingdom that can compare. "
"Oh?"
Seveni looked at manager Riley and asked in an interested voice, "What is the treatment of the New Flyer's employees?
Why do you think it's so good? "
Manager Riley glanced at Xu Yi. Seeing that he didn't say anything, he smiled and said, "Let's not talk about anything else. Just the workers in New Flyer only have eight hours a day. No other chamber of commerce can compare to this."
"Eight hours a day?" Seveni looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
"Chairman Xu, is this true?"
Xu Yi nodded with a faint smile.
Seveni of course knew that Xu Yi wouldn't lie to her about something that could be easily found out, so she was even more surprised.
"Why is there this rule?
Although the employees also need to rest, don't you think it's too little to only have eight hours of fixed working time?
You give the employees that much time to rest, don't you think that their wages are a bit of a waste? "
Xu Yi's expression was a bit strange. He thought that because there were too many orders in New Flyer, the workers had to work overtime every day. If this was on earth, he would be cursed as an unscrupulous capitalist, but he never thought that he would be accused of giving the workers too much time to rest, wasting their wages.
"This ….. Young miss Seveni, the workers are also people. Other than work, they should have their own private time.
Actually manager Riley isn't right. Because the company has been too busy recently, the workers have to work overtime every day, so they don't have that much time to rest. "
Without waiting for Seveni to speak, manager Riley couldn't help saying, "Come on, Chairman Xu.
Your Chamber of Commerce's workers don't even want to work overtime. When my workers heard your workers mention their overtime pay, some of them even wanted to jump ship to your Chamber of Commerce. "
"Overtime pay?" Seveni was surprised again.
"What is that?"
"Eh ….. It's outside of the set eight hours of work, if you want the workers to work, you have to give them extra pay. This pay is called overtime pay." Xu Yi explained.
Seveni looked at Xu Yi with a strange look, "Chairman Xu, you really are a strange chairman. Your New Flyer is also very strange, this is my first time hearing that the company's employees have overtime pay.
That's right, chairman Xu, can I take the liberty to ask, the employees of your company ….. What is the monthly wage of the workers? "
"There's nothing to be presumptuous about, it's not a secret."
Xu Yi said with a smile, "If it's a set eight hours of work and there's no overtime, the workers of these two workshops will have a wage of around eight gold coins.
As for these two months, because there's a lot of overtime, it's around ten to sixteen gold coins. "
"That much?"
Seveni's eyes opened wide. After thinking about it, she turned to manager Riley to ask, "Mister Riley, can I ask what your workers' monthly wage is?"
Manager Riley gave a bitter laugh and looked at Xu Yi with a bit of bitterness. After hesitating for a bit, he hesitantly replied, "This ….. Different jobs have different wages. Right now it's around ….. four-eight gold coins a month ….." Seeing the strange look in Seveni's eyes, manager Riley couldn't help explaining, "Our Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce's price is already high enough. The other workers who build houses like us only get six gold coins a month!
Young miss Seveni, you can't compare our company to New Flyer. Chairman Xu, he ….. he ….. "
"What's wrong with me?" Xu Yi asked with a smile.
Under the gazes of Xu Yi and Seveni, manager Riley gave a dry laugh for a while. He knew that he couldn't hide in the end, so he lowered his voice and said, "This ….. Chairman Xu, young miss Seveni, you can't say that I said this.
Actually, when the big bosses of many companies in Banta City talk about Chairman Xu in private, they all say ….. they all say that Chairman Xu is a complete prodigal ….. "
"Prodigal?" Xu Yi couldn't help laughing, "Giving workers a higher wage is prodigal?
I think that they are too stingy, right? "
Manager Riley waved his hand, "Chairman Xu, you can't speak nonsense.
Actually if I had to say it, you are indeed a bit of a prodigal.
They are just normal workers, is there a need to give them such a high wage?
Not to mention that your New Flyer is giving workers such a high wage, what do you want the other companies of Banta City to do?
Do you know that the workers under me have protested to me several times?
If it wasn't for chairman Cruz agreeing to increase their wages, those workers would have already quit. "
Xu Yi looked at the angry manager Riley and thought that these words weren't manager Riley's idea, but rather chairman Cruz's idea. It could be considered a small warning from the other companies of Banta City.
Xu Yi didn't care about this at all.
Compared to him, these fellows were the real capitalists that squeezed the blood and sweat of their workers.
Of course, in Sines, these fellows' methods were normal. Xu Yi's methods were a bit strange, so it was expected that these people would object.
But Xu Yi didn't plan on changing according to their ideas.
Based on the history of industrial development on earth, suppressing the wages of workers wasn't an appropriate method because this would go against the laws of economic development and would suppress economic development.
If the public didn't have enough economic ability to buy products, it meant that the market wasn't active enough. It would affect the flow of products and affect the profits of the companies that sold them, creating a vicious cycle.
But for New Flyer to increase the wages of workers, it would allow the workers to have enough economic ability to satisfy the basic needs of their families while also having the ability to buy other products. It would promote the flow of products and increase economic development.
For example, the two hundred human workers working in the household magic machine workshop. Because they received a wage of ten gold coins from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce each month, not only did their family's living standards greatly improve, they even had extra money to buy some toys for their children.
Even if these toys weren't produced by New Flyer, the company that produced these toys would gain benefits from this. It would allow this company to gain more profits and create more jobs, increasing the income of another group of people.
If this cycle continued, New Flyer would also benefit from this.
Take the Magic Fan for example. Actually a single Magic Fan only cost two gold coins. If the average income of Banta City's workers could reach the level of the household magic machine workshop workers, then each family would have the ability to buy one.
Like this, just in a small Banta City, the Xinfei Brand Magic Fans could be sold in the tens of thousands. It wouldn't be like this summer where they only sold a few thousand.
Xu Yi felt that people like chairman Cruz wouldn't understand these principles, so he didn't plan on wasting time explaining these principles to them. The best method was to directly do it.
Only when the benefits were presented to them would they be able to understand.
As for now, Xu Yi didn't plan on changing his methods.
After quickly thinking about this, Xu Yi paused before saying to manager Riley with a smile, "It's good that you don't want to do it anymore. Our company is currently preparing to expand our production scale, so we're planning on recruiting some more workers.
If your workers don't want to work anymore, I welcome them to join our company. "
Manager Riley's expression changed, "Chairman Xu, what do you mean by this?"
Xu Yi laughed and patted manager Riley's shoulder as he said, "There's no meaning, it's just a joke.
Be assured, manager Riley, please tell chairman Cruz that since our New Flyer has joined the Business Union, we definitely won't make it hard for everyone.
Since the wages of the workers have increased, it's impossible for it to fall for no reason. But in other aspects, we can cooperate more. As long as everyone earns gold coins, even if we give our workers a higher wage, it isn't something that is hard to accept, don't you think? "
Manager Riley looked at Xu Yi with an uncertain expression.
This Xu Yi, was he making sarcastic remarks?