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CHINA LABOR

China has changed from a low-cost labor manufacturing haven to one where attracting and retaining workers is often a company’s biggest, most demanding task. Higher wages, tight labor markets, and ever more assertive workers are now some of the biggest challenges facing multinationals and emerging Chinese companies alike. We explore the challenges.

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New Rules Issued for Layoffsmore

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Asian Companies, Governments Scramble to Save Jobsmore

Corporate managers in Asia have always treated their staff with a touch of paternalism. Companies were not meant to be...

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a substantial cooperation project to support the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) in their commitment to...

'Buy American' clause stirs up controversymore

insist upon the use of U.S.-made materials, taxpayer funds could line the pockets of European or Chinese workers rather...

China job losses send 20M migrants homemore

Job losses triggered by the global financial crisis have driven some 20 million Chinese workers from cities back to...

E.U. and China agree action on health and safety and intellectual prop...more

and deaths in the workplace. The agreement will focus particularly on the mining sector that employs some million...

China's Small Factories Strugglemore

SHENZHEN, China -- The global downturn is taking a particularly severe toll on China's legions of dynamic small...

If China decides it doesnt want to buy the new IOUs, interest rates in...more

moving, the notion that tax cuts and government spending will end up buying goods made in China by Chinese workers is...

Chinese workers find rights imperiled in crisismore

much of the progress made by China's workers over the last few years,' a labor rights publication, China Labor...

Millions of Chinese set to lose jobs as New Year celebrations endmore

Millions of Chinese set to lose jobs as New Year celebrations end As many as 40 million Chinese who moved from the...

Lenovo reboots again for 2010more

its difficulty in expanding its successful Chinese experience to other markets and increased the culture conflicts...

Nearly 1,000 Toy Exporters Shut Down In S China In 2008more

GUANGZHOU - Product recalls, rising production costs and the global financial crisis caused almost 1,000 Chinese toy...

Dissent in China: The year of living dissidentlymore

THE months ahead will be busy for Chinese dissidents. A string of sensitive anniversaries will evoke numerous petitions...

Workers abroad Must Be 'Better Protected'more

The government should take steps to better protect Chinese workers abroad, especially because their number could...

Workers deported from Saudi after pay disputemore

Twenty-three Chinese workers have been deported by Saudi Arabia after being arrested earlier this week for going on a...

The great stitch-up: Primark supplier denies abuse of UK workersmore

price of fashion should be rising, thanks to the cost of raw materials and particularly an increasingly vociferous...

More China layoffs mean bolder protestsmore

purely economic. But in China it's a huge political problem,' said Li, director of the New York-based China Labor Watch.

Avery Dennison case a window on the pitfalls U.S. firms face in Chinamore

Hong Kong or Taiwan, to grease the wheels for them. And they often set aggressive targets for their Chinese employees...

The Economic Downturn Will Increase Social Instability in China? Exper...more

With little doubt in anyone’s mind that the impact of the global crisis impacting China, the focus has changed.

Wal-Mart news clouds the worldmore

our headlong rush to buy cheap stuff and profit from the process, we accelerated the jobs exodus. Now Chinese workers...

China May Face Social Unrest as Unemployment Risesmore

China may face social unrest in 2009 as unemployment rises because of the global financial crisis, a state-run weekly...

China Gets Warning on Job Protestsmore

BEIJING -- China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run...

China's newly frugal youthsmore

By Gemma O'Neill and Shuvra Mahmud BBC Monitoring Many young Chinese workers are having to learn to cut back Amid the...

Middle Class turmoil: China's mounting pink slipsmore

for companies and some compensation for workers. So far, a thousand sparks haven't become a wildfire. Fretful Chinese...

Employers in China Have Issues Shedding Workersmore

Companies that rushed into China during the boom years may find it difficult amid the global downturn to extract...

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