Online travel agency Qunar is cutting over a hundred employees, and several of those being let go are pursuing arbitration against their dismissals, a company employee told Caixin.

A member of a Qunar project team told Caixin that all 100-plus members of his team were being let go, as well as an unknown number of two other departments.

The employee, who asked not to be named, was informed two days before the Dec. 13 deadline to choose to terminate his contact or be transferred within the company — much shorter than the 30 days stipulated by Chinese labor law.

He said around 90% of laid-off employees in his group are unsatisfied with their reimbursement plans and the alternate positions offered. Several are pursuing labor arbitration against the decisions.

Qunar told Caixin that the layoffs were normal following annual year-end assessments.

The end of the year is typically a brisk period for layoffs in China, and throughout the world. Part of that is for budgetary reasons, since many companies typically have budgets each year to pay for layoff-related costs, and are trying to use up those budgets by the end of the calendar year. In China, some companies also have policies to automatically lay off the worst-performing employees each year, typically at a fixed rate of around 10% of their workforce.

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