Items tagged with "law"
Labor NGOs in Guangdong Province
... The last two CLNT postings were related to labor ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/27/labor-ngos-in-guangdong-province · 7 January 2008
Shenzhen Labor Activist Attacked
... In this issue of China Labor News Translations we offer coverage of a savage attack on November ... against grass-roots labor rights advocate Huang Qingnan, of the Dagongzhe Migrant Workers Center, in ... Longgang district of Shenzhen. English language media coverage has begun to appear (for ... in the 11/28/07 Wall Street Journal), as the incident draws international attention. Here ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/26/shenzhen-labor-activist-attacked · 6 December 2007
A new precedent: Shenzhen furniture factory worker wins two years overtime back pay
... Chinese migrant workers being owed wages is a problem widely recognized in China. It is so common ... we have inadvertently taken it for granted. CLNT is fortunate to have come ... a recent case study that challenges the chronic underpayment of Chinese workers. There are ... main ways that workers are owed wages: 1) underpaid or unpaid overtime; 2) wage arrears for regular ... hours. The problem is so widespread particularly concerning overtime wages – that it has ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/25/h4-a-new-precedent-shenzhen-furniture-factory-worker-wins-two-years-overtime-back-pay · 13 November 2007
“Western Fast Food” chains violate minimum wage laws
... Discussion about workers rights and Labor Law in China has again come to focus on large ... companies. In February this year, a few journalists from Guangzhous New Express on their own ... went to investigate working conditions at McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut. ... of them posed as students and worked at several facilities. They found that all three fast-food ... were seriously underpaying their part-time employees. Under Chinese law, part-time employees are ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/17/western-fast-food-chains-violate-minimum-wage-laws · 26 May 2007