Labour News

• Labour Arbitration

Former Siemens China staff file for arbitration seeking 1.2 million yuan in bonuses

A total of 155 former employees of the Research and Development Department of Siemens China in Beijing filed an arbitration claim with the local labour dispute arbitration committee at the end of April, seeking to secure unpaid year-end bonuses totalling 1.2 million yuan. [Read More]

• Industrial Accident

Thirty-one miners killed in coal mine blast

A gas explosion at a coal mine in Shaanxi Province has killed 31 miners and another miner is still missing, according to Xinhua. [Read More]

• International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers and May Day

Respect workers' rights to compensation for workplace-related diseases and injuries

According to statistics from the State Administration of Work and Safety, about 127,000 people died in about 718,000 industrial accidents in 2005, of which about 6,000 miners died in coal mine accidents. [Read More]

Chinese Workers' Voices: Qitaihe Mining Bureau rushes bereaved families into compensation agreements (V)

Han Dongfang's latest radio interview with Chinese workers.

• Read the English transcript: [Click here]
• Listen to the original audio file (in Putonghua): [Click here]
  

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