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China's labour market faces tough challenges ahead
China's labour market is in a state of flux. The needs of employers and the demands of employees are increasingly out of sync, and this dislocation is only likely to worsen as growth continues to slow and the economy moves away from a reliance on exports towards greater domestic consumption.
23 July 2013
The desperate performance art of Ji Zhongxing
The Beijing airport bombing that shocked the nation on 20 June not only raised questions about the fairness of China’s legal system but also highlighted the lack of effective channels for migrant workers seeking redress for injustice.
24 July 2013
SCMP: Cambodia's textile workers hang by a thread under Chinese bosses
Western clothing brands profit from lower wages in Cambodia as tensions mount between Chinese factory managers and local garment workers
27 July 2013
Elderly workers caught in legal limbo
Five elderly sanitation workers who are demanding compensation for wages in arrears and years of unpaid overtime, social insurance contributions and other allowances have been told they are not eligible for compensation because they have already exceeded the statutory retirement age.Photograph by Delfryn Design available at flickr.com
30 July 2013
ABC: Apple supplier accused of China labour abuses
A labour rights group says factories making Apple products in China have been forcing employees to work unpaid overtime in poor working and living conditions.
31 July 2013
USA Today: Immigration debate ensnares foreign workers
Sukh Singh had a college degree in mechanical engineering and a dream of working in the United States, but that seemed impossible from his small farming village in northern India.
12 August 2013
Wall Street Journal: Indian Deal for Cooper Tire Riles Chinese Workers
A tire plant in eastern China is poised to change foreign owners, but the takeover isn't sitting well with the more than 5,000 Chinese workers employed at Cooper Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Co.
01 August 2013
Guangzhou hospital healthcare workers settle dispute but security guards’ protest continues
After more than two months of protest, about 150 healthcare workers at the Guangzhou Chinese Medicine University Hospital have accepted a compensation offer from their employer of 20,000 yuan each.
20 August 2013
Sichuan miners continue their fight despite setbacks
Han Dongfang talks to former miners determined to fulfill a colleague’s wish that they continue their fight for compensation after his death from pneumoconiosis last year.
21 August 2013
What happens when elderly workers in China legally cease to be workers?
When workers in China reach the statutory retirement age they are no longer technically workers. Under Chinese law, they are deemed not to have an “employment relationship” (劳动关系) and are instead categorized as labour service providers (劳务关系), similar to domestic helpers etc.
28 August 2013