From AP via the International Herald Tribune:
Workers at foreign-funded companies in China need more protection, a top advisory body said, in the latest bid to give such employees more power at international companies and factories.
A report issued by the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference said a growing number of collective labor disputes “were mainly caused by the malpractice of employers,” according to the official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday.
The report said low wages, unreasonable workloads and a lack of safety measures were among the major causes of an increase in collective labor disputes in the booming southern Guangdong and Fujian provinces.[Full Text]
