China: labor contract law is far from being respected in businesses

By reporting the proof of repeated violations by his employer and obtaining winning his case at the arbitration committee, Huang Weimu - a migrant worker in the Guangdong Province - has become an internet hero. Despite this standard bearer of the defense of workers' rights, the non-application of the new labor contract law (see our dispatch No. 080887) remains widespread. (Réf. 080966)
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Huang Weimu comes from Guanxi province. He worked for five months in the Huisheng furniture factory in Panyu, a town in Guangdong, the southern region of China with the highest production export levels. During the day he assembled furniture; at night, he catalogued the violations of the new labor law. Huang Weimu never signed a labor contract, the purpose of the new law. He worked six out of seven days and four to five additional hours every evening, paid at 0.5 yuans (i.e. €0.03). He explained

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