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AFP: Foxconn admits employing underage interns in China
Taiwan's Foxconn has admitted employing children as young as 14 on assembly lines at a plant in China, a fresh blow to the tech giant that has been attacked over its treatment of staff after several suicides.
17 October 2012
Radio Australia: Foxconn admits underage interns used in China factories
Electronics giant Foxconn has admitted to using technical school students as young as 14 as workers in one of its factories in China.
18 October 2012
How can China best protect its medical workers from violent assault?
The sentencing on 21 October of a teenager to life in prison for the murder of a medical intern and the stabbing of three other hospital workers in the north-eastern city of Harbin has once again highlighted the increasingly serious problem of assaults on medical workers by patients and other members of the public.
22 October 2012
Wall Street Journal: An Alternative Look at China’s Labor Markets
Unemployment is arguably the most important, but least well measured, factor in China’s economy.
24 October 2012
Chinese factory manager causes near riot in Cambodia
Six months ago, in discussing the massive influx of Chinese businesses into Cambodia, I wrote that “there is a real danger that Chinese businesses will simply try to replicate the exploitative model of labour relations that Chinese workers are now beginning to reject at home.” Sadly it seems that process has already begun. Photograph of Royal Palace in Phnom Penh at sunset.
24 October 2012
Wall Street Journal: Worker Dispute Halts Production at Chinese Electronics Plant
Compal Electronics Inc., a contract manufacturer of personal computers, said a dispute with production-line workers over shifts and wages has halted production since early Thursday at a southwest China plant that supplies Dell Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd.
29 October 2012
Los Angeles Times: Chinese factory giant employed underage interns on assembly line
A Chinese vocational school sends five 15-year-old boys to assemble Sony PlayStations at a Foxconn manufacturing plant. The legal age to do such work is 16.
31 October 2012
Debate on revisions to Labour Contract Law delayed because of deluge of submissions
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) has postponed discussion of draft revisions to the Labour Contract Law after being inundated with more than half a million submissions during the period of public consultation over the summer.
31 October 2012
AFP: Top headache for China’s new leaders: job creation
The factories that have powered China’s economic miracle are reeling from the global slowdown, presenting the incoming leadership in Beijing with a restless workforce at a defining moment in the country’s growth story.
02 November 2012
Foxconn tragedy highlights the anger and mistrust of many migrant workers
A tragic accident at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen last year that left a bright young man from Henan with severe brain injuries has led to a bitter dispute between the company and the worker’s family. Last week, a labour dispute arbitration committee in Shenzhen finally heard the case. CLB attended the hearing and talked to the family about their yearlong dispute with the world’s largest electronics manufacturer.
05 November 2012