Items tagged with "wages"
The Wenling Model: an experiment in trade-wide collective bargaining
... Click here to download this introduction in PDF format ... Much is written about the trade union in China, but how much do we know about how it ... operates inside workplaces, and how it negotiates with private enterprises over wages and conditions ... workers? The Wal-Mart company-wide collective bargaining agreement was one such insight into the All ... Federation of Trades Union’s (ACFTU) approach to collective bargaining. ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/49/wenling · 21 October 2009
The “Migrant Worker Commander”: Zhang Quanshou and the Quanshun Labor Dispatch Company
... In this issue of CLNT we address the increasing use of labour dispatch ... China, with particular focus on the unusual case of a company called Quanshun. Former ... Zhang Quanshou has been hailed in the Chinese media, for pioneering a new model of labour dispatch ... to be a win-win for workers and employers alike. Quanshun dispatches workers on-demand, to meet the ... needs of manufacturing enterprises. When workers are no longer needed, Quanshun takes them back and ...
http://www.clntranslations.org/article/40/the-migrant-worker-commander-zhang-quanshou-and-the-quanshun-labor-dispatch-company · 23 July 2009
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 · 14 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 Guangzhou’s New Express on their own ... went to investigate working conditions at McDonald’s, 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