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Health worker’s nine-year petitioning ordeal ends in psychiatric

WebHan Dongfang talks to a family of healthcare professional’s whose demands for pension arrears resulted in nine years of petitioning, detention in a black jail, and …

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What you need to know about workers in China

WebThe 2022 official estimate of the population of rural migrant workers in China is 296 million, comprising more than one-third of the entire working population. Migrant workers have …

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Medical staff in China’s major urban centres are over-burdened …

WebThe over-concentration of high-quality medical services in China’s big cities means that hospital staff in major urban centres are stretched to the limit while those in …

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An introduction to China's work-related injury compensation system

WebThe four basic stages in the compensation process are: 1. Diagnosis by an official health authority; 2. Verification by the local labour and social security authorities …

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Masseuses in China: Long Working Hours and Low Awareness of

WebAs more and more Hong Kong people frequent the cities of the Pearl River Delta, buying flats there and going for weekends and holidays, a new area of …

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China’s ageing construction workers and the urgent need for an …

WebIn the 1980s and 90s, millions of young labourers from the Chinese countryside flooded into the cities to work on construction sites; building roads, bridges, …

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Nurse shortage comes face to face with low pay, inadequate …

WebCost reduction mindset in industry leads to poor labour conditions and inadequate care for patients. This article is a summary of a CLB report originally …

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Medical interns and residents exploited by hospitals hit with wave …

WebPie Chart: Calls-for-Help Map Incidents by Industry (December 2022) Regarding the labour rights challenges of service industry workers, China Labour Bulletin …

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Migrant workers are dying of various occupational diseases

WebOn 29 October, the Shanghai Daily published an article highlighting the problem that more and more migrant workers in China are contracting occupational diseases as many …

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About Us China Labour Bulletin

WebA short history of China Labour Bulletin. Or why China Labour Bulletin is called China Labour Bulletin. CLB was first established in Hong Kong in 1994 as a bi-lingual, monthly …

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Guangzhou court rejects shipyard workers’ occupational disease …

WebA Guangzhou court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 34 shipyard workers who claimed their employer, CSSC Guangzhou Longxue Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, had …

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Child Labour in China: Causes and solutions

WebDespite great advances made in reducing child labour in China since 1949, the practice has not been eradicated and indeed appears to be on the increase. The extent of child labour …

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Kunshan tragedy reveals long-term as well as immediate dangers …

WebThe massive explosion that killed 75 workers and injured 180 others at an automotive components factory in Kunshan on Saturday highlighted once again the extreme dangers …

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As China's Economy Grows, So does China's Child Labour Problem

Web10 June 2005. Child labour in China is hardly a new phenomenon. For years, despite official regulations banning the employment of minors (defined by Chinese law as those under …

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Hong Kong and mainland elder care workers in fifth pandemic …

WebAt the height of Hong Kong’s fifth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the management office of residential housing unit Riviera Gardens in Tsuen Wan issued a …

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Work accidents and deaths in China fall but familiar failings remain

WebThe number of work-related accidents and deaths in China fell by 20.3 percent and 18.5 percent respectively in the first nine months of this year compared with …

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The Plight of China's E-Waste Workers China Labour Bulletin

WebSources 1. Toxic Town, South China Morning Post, 7 June 2005 2. Dante's Digital Junkyard, Los Angeles Times, 6 April 2004 3. Where Computers Go to Die, San …

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Work safety China Labour Bulletin

WebIntroduction. China is undeniably a safer place to work than it was a decade ago. However, accident rates, death tolls and the incidence of occupational disease are …

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Worker protests at Zhengzhou Foxconn highlight labour-capital …

WebNewly-recruited workers protest against the same poor work conditions at Apple supplier that led thousands to flee the factory last month. Adequately responding …

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China Labour Bulletin

Web6 THE HARD ROAD 1 Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), “2007 年全國職業病報告 發病情況” (2007 Report on the National Incidence of Occupational …

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