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BEIJING, June 13 (TMTPOST) — Logistic service provider J&T Express is under fire on Chinese social media for delaying payment to its employees.

The news made it to the trending topic chart on Chinese social media Weibo on Sunday.

A spokesperson of J&T Express said that the company is looking into the matter and working to solve the issues as soon as possible.

It was reported that the J&T outlet in Hutangzhen, Changzhou, has been late in paying a number of its employees. The involved payment is around 300,000 yuan. The owner of the J&T outlet was unreachable.

J&T Express’s logistic service is currently unavailable in the area with lots of shipment stuck at the logistic outlet. There is no staff for delivering packages that have been shipped to the outlet.

J&T Express tried to relocate the shipping backblog in Hutangzhen but was met with opposition from the outlet’s employees. “We are not letting them move the shipments away. We are all staying here 24 hours until they pay us,” an employee said. Some customers came to the outlet to look for their packages. Some fresh produces have already been rotten at the outlet.

J&T Express is an Indonesian logistics company. Founded in 2015, the company is generally engaged in logistics and package delivery. J&T uses automated sorting warehouses in Indonesia and Singapore. It received Indonesian Top Brand Award in 2018 and 2019. As of April 2021, the company was valued by investors at USD US$8 billion.

The company entered the Chinese market in 2020 where it mainly serves Taobao-challenger Pinduoduo. According to information on J&T Express’s official site, the company provides services in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and many other Southeast Asian countries, offering services to over two billion people across the globe.