China’s leading OTA Ctrip has suspended two executives and an investigation is underway after video footage showed employees’ young children being mistreated at a company day care centre in Shanghai.
Clips were released of young children of Ctrip employees being roughly manhandled and apparently being force fed wasabi, according to one complaint.
The footage has caused an outcry in China.
A group vice president Shi Qi, and vice president Feng Weihua were suspended pending the findings of an investigation.
The Shanghai Municipal Working Committee on Children and Women called it a ‘severe case of child abuse’ after a preliminary investigation.
The centre houses employees’ children under three years old and is run by an outsourced organisation.
The manager responsible for running the crèche has been detained.
Ctrip said it is now seeking new management for the centre and will allow parents to see surveillance video inside the centre on their mobile phones from now on.
