Labour News

• Protest

Hubei Community Teachers Launch Major Civil Rights Campaign

About 300 out-of-work teachers from 20 different towns and townships in Suizhou Municipality in Hubei province gathered in front of the city government offices on July 31 and August 1 to submit a petition, demanding the government help them obtain livelihood assistance and benefits such as pensions and medical insurance. [Read More]

• Multinational companies and labour practice

iPod supplier factory breaks code of conduct on overtime, Apple says

Workers at a Chinese factory producing popular iPod music players work "longer hours than permitted", according to the Apple Computer Inc.'s recently released results of an investigation of alleged labour rights violations in the factory. [Read More]

• State-owned enterprises and salaries

SOE managers in Guangdong accused of receiving unreasonably high salaries and bonuses

Senior managers of some state-owned enterprises in Guangdong are criticised by a government-backed research centre as receiving unreasonably high salaries and arbitrary bonuses, according to media reports. [Read More]

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