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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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China's Kaiman Aluminum, previously known as Coalmine Aluminum, started up its new 350,000 mt/year 99.

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China Gets Warning on Job Protestsmore

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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...

China Manufacturing Expandsmore

China's Purchasing Managers Index rose again in December, the ten straight month of expansion in manufacturing activity.

China to Hunt Foreign Investors Who Leave Debtsmore

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The Chinese Trade Union’s Big Rush to Set Up Unions in Fortune 500...more

Two years after the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) accomplished a breakthrough to set up workplace unions...

A cautionary tale from Chinamore

Raiding his own company’s Beijing headquarters with the help of lawyers and a police escort was not what Heinz Zuercher...

Chinese caddies join the unemployment linemore

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Keeping track of the widening casualties of the global recession in China is becoming...

China worker protests only naturalmore

China's central government to recruit 15,000 staffmore

The Chinese central government will start its annual recruitment of new staff in mid October, offering about 15,000...

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...

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