To pass Walmart's social responsibility audit, Guangxi Wuzhou Tianmijia Bee Industry required employees to memorize false statements to cover up long-term mandatory overtime without days off, wage withholding, illegal employment practices, and lack of fire safety facilities, while also carrying out hasty temporary renovations to cope with the inspection.
A netizen's submission revealed that the Tianmijia Bee Industry production workshop canceled its only one day of rest per week for 62 consecutive days from July 20 to September 20, 2026.
The honey water workshop runs from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and even until 10:30 or 11:30 p.m. Lunch and dinner breaks are only 30 minutes long, with no clock-in required, and workers must return to their posts immediately after eating.
Meeting recordings claim overtime on Saturdays and Sundays is paid at double wages, but in fact veteran employees are still paid for only 8 hours on weekends, while most new employees are labor-dispatched workers with neither double pay nor social insurance, and no paid annual leave even after one year of work.
The company's statement claimed that there were no temporary workers in the workshop, and that during the audit process it asked temporary workers to leave the site to avoid the auditors; in fact the workshop had temporary workers, a large number of dispatched labor workers, summer workers, and vocational school interns.
The company has employee dorms where multiple people share rooms; a meeting recording says the dorms do not meet standards, and to avoid losing points in inspections employees were told to simply say there are no dorms.
The company had never conducted fire drills; had it not been for Walmart's audit, the emergency lights and exit signs in the workshop would not have been powered on, and the smoke alarms, emergency alarms, and emergency lights in other areas were only installed two days before the audit.
From the resumption of work on February 24, 2026 (the eighth day of the first lunar month) to May, the only days off were 1 day for the Qingming holiday and 2 days for the May Day holiday, 3 days in total.
The “Employee Interviews on Social Responsibility Certification” claims that clerks who miss a punch will help make up the punch, but in reality this does not exist; each missed punch results in a 10 yuan deduction.
The company's statement claimed 12 days off for the Spring Festival, but in fact only 9 days were given.
A netizen's submission revealed that the speech by Huang Zhonglian, chairman of Tianmi Family Bee Industry, was packaged with patriotic slogans while actually depriving employees of their right to rest.
To prepare for the Walmart audit on September 9, 2026, the factory launched a major cleaning and renovation push in mid-August, canceling rest days and working continuous overtime purely for show.