Items tagged with "wages"
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