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Plaintiff obtains 30,000 yuan in China’s first gender discrimination lawsuit
The plaintiff in what is believed to be China’s first gender employment discrimination case has accepted 30,000 yuan and a formal apology from the Juren Academy in Beijing after she was refused a job as an administrative assistant. Photo of the plaintiff outside the court in Beijing after her case was finally accepted.
09 January 2014
Keeping the truth hidden: Steel plant refuses to acknowledge worker’s occupational disease
Every time Jiao Jianlong tried to get an official diagnosis for his pneumoconiosis he ran up against a brick wall.
15 January 2014
Shoe factory fire in Zhejiang kills at least 16 workers
In the latest devastating workplace fire to hit China, at least 16 workers were killed when a blaze broke out on the afternoon of 14 January at a shoe factory in the eastern coastal city of Wenling, China’s official media reported.
15 January 2014
Wall Street Journal: Western Brands Rethink Low-Cost Focus
Deadly factory incidents in Asia are forcing more Western brands to rethink their search for low production prices.
16 January 2014
Japanese Supreme Court decision puts trainee workers back in the spotlight
The Supreme Court of Japan has ordered a retrial to determine the compensation to be paid to the family of Luo Cheng, a Chinese “trainee” worker who was killed by a Japanese policeman more than seven years ago.
20 January 2014
The Times: China’s anti-pollution drive ‘just a decoy’
The furnaces of the Xingye steel mill, in the northeastern city of Tangshan, are silent. A lone worker trawls the perimeter for anything of value. Two lorryloads of road grit have been dumped across the front entrance, in a stony statement of closure.
15 December 2013
Shenzhen officials investigating child labour just go through the motions
The Shenzhen authorities have now investigated last month’s media exposé of child labour in the city and have made their determination. However, the punishment handed down to the two factories involved is unlikely to scare off other employers in the future.
22 January 2014
Hitachi sacks worker activist who lobbied for trade union
A worker activist at the Hitachi Metals factory in Guangzhou who lobbied for the establishment of a trade union at the enterprise has been sacked, just a few days after the company started to recruit union members.Photo by dcmaster @flickr.com
24 January 2014
Endorsements for China Labour Bulletin
Leading scholars, researchers, journalists and trade unionists discuss the importance of China Labour Bulletin.
24 January 2014
Income disparity continues to rise in China
Despite the central government’s attempts to tackle the alarming gap between the rich and the poor in China, the latest job data shows that wages in the two highest paid sectors, finance and high-technology, were growing at a faster rate than those in already poorly paid manufacturing and service industries
27 January 2014