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Financial Times: HP tightens guidelines on China labour
Hewlett-Packard has issued new guidelines to its Chinese suppliers aimed at reducing the long hours worked by temporary student workers and ensuring that their recruitment process complies with local regulations.
11 February 2013
Wall Street Journal: H-P Steps Up Supplier Oversight in China
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday it would tighten restrictions on the use of student interns and temporary workers by its suppliers in China in a bid to reduce abuses of an often-exploited loophole in Chinese labor law.
11 February 2013
In these Times: Can We Trust Foxconn’s New ‘Democratic’ Chinese Factories?
A few years ago, the multinational tech manufacturer Foxconn, a brand previously vaunted as a symbol of China’s 21st century industrial ascent, was marred by the image of miserable young factory workers flinging themselves off the tops of buildings. So the company rolled into damage control mode with typical efficiency:
12 February 2013
What happens when the money runs out for victims of pneumoconiosis?
China Central Television investigates what happened three years after a group of migrant workers from Leiyang made headlines in 2009 by getting compensation from the Shenzhen government for the pneumoconiosis they contracted whilst working on the city’s building sites.
13 February 2013
SCMP: Migrant mainland workers' happy homecoming
Two of the millions of workers who went home for the Lunar New Year holiday took our reporter along, offering a glimpse of joy and sadness in the life of a migrant family
15 February 2013
Radio Australia: Prominent Chinese labour activist to address Aust workers union
One of China's best known labour rights activists is in Australia to address the annual meeting of the Australian Workers' Union.
20 February 2013
Le Point: Foxconn : les ouvriers protestent même à Pékin
Les usines Foxconn en Chine sont régulièrement agitées mais, pour la première fois, la protestation atteint les ateliers de la capitale.
30 January 2013
National Times: Worker strikes in China 'too common to suppress'
Chinese workers are now launching too many strikes and protests for authorities to suppress, according to a union dissident visiting Australia.
21 February 2013
ABC Newsline: Chinese workers fight for better conditions
China's officially sanctioned trade unions do little to improve the country's battalions of manufacturing workers. Recently that has started to change with some workers winning improvements in pay and conditions. Jim Middleton speaks with Han Dongfang, an advocate for workers' rights in China.
25 February 2013
The need for workers to have a choice in work-related injury compensation payments
The Chinese government last month invited public comment on its proposals to improve the implementation of the Work-related Injury Insurance Regulations (工伤保险条例). The proposals issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) are on the whole constructive and should help better protect the rights of victims of occupational injury and illness. However, China Labour Bulletin has noted a few potential problems in the proposals, which we outlined in a detailed submission to the MOHRSS in mid-February.
26 February 2013