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#WeeklyCLBHighlight: How much do workers in China actually get paid?
Most cities and provinces in China have released their statistics on salaries, including average and minimum wages.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight China’s 16-24 year olds have highest unemployment rate ever: 18.2%
#unemployment #unemploymentrate
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: Workers’ voices rise up from frontlines of Shanghai lockdown
Frontline workers in Shanghai are still struggling under the spread of Omicron. The compulsory testing has led to overtime work for several weeks on end, and many lack basic workplace protections.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: Medical staff in China are exhausted and dying from overwork
This month, as the #Omicron variant sweeps across China, medical staff around the country have been working #overtime, leading in some cases to death from #exhaustion.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: Covid social distancing measures leave workers without shelter
Sleeping on the street, making plastic pallets into bed… For workers, the latest anti-epidemic measures have created barriers to workers’ basic needs.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: Hong Kong workers in the battle against Omicron
Hong Kong reported 32,597 new Covid-19 cases and 117 deaths in the past 24 hours. In this surge, little has been done to ensure workers’ safety, especially those who have been at the forefront of the battle.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: How odd migrant workers’ odd jobs truly can be?
If it hadn’t been for Yue Zongxian receiving a positive Covid-19 PCR test result, public opinion in #China on #migrantworkers who run the cities might not have had the opportunity to change. #oddjobs
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: Voices of China’s young and isolated workers in retail and service industry https://t.co/nc4E3hjVji
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: “How #Alibaba implements the labour law is ridiculous,” says Alibaba employee fired after speaking out about workplace assault
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: Why aren’t women happy about longer maternity leave?
China’s family planning policy was amended to allow for and encourage married couples to have up to three children, so some provinces have recently introduced extension of maternity leave periods.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: What time do workers actually start and end their workdays?
In the anonymous collective WorkingTime spreadsheet, over 6k workers shared their scheduling practices. However, the project disappeared on Github early this month. https://t.co/cTfCxzU2Bh
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: During extreme weather hazards, food delivery platforms incentivise unsafe work
In #typhoons and other unsafe conditions, platforms throw caution to the wind by providing additional rewards to riders, attracting them to continue working despite safety risks.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: Trapped on China’s Belt and Road, Chinese workers stow away to escape
5 workers from China travelled to #Indonesia for work in March this year for Dexin Steel Indonesia, a key project of #China’s Belt and Road......
#BeltandRoad #Indonesia #GlobalSolidarity
#WeeklyCLBHighlight
Popularised by #Alibaba, “996 work culture” refers to the expectation that employees work from 9am-9pm, six days per week. Both enterprises and the govt are making moves to criticize and even abandon this system, prevalent in China’s #techcompanies. #overtime
#WeeklyCLBHighlight : Workers across China rise up against workplace harassment
The high-profile case of workplace sexual assault at tech giant #Alibaba has proceeded to formal legal channels. Meanwhile, #civilsociety resistance against workplace harassment has gained speed.
#WeeklyCLBHighlight : Sexual assault at Alibaba: Challenges to fighting within the system
In an anonymous post on 7 August, an #Alibaba employee reported that her manager and a client sexually assaulted her. The manager involved has since been fired.
#MeToo
#WeeklyCLBHighlight: China’s vulnerable workers still struggling in the pandemic and flooding
While another outbreak of #Covid19 spreads through China’s cities and the investigation of Henan flooding carries on, workers‘re still the most vulnerable group. #Zhengzhou #Wuhan
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