China and Japan Sign Social Security Totalization Treaty

China and Japan signed the China–Japan Social Security Treaty in May, 2018. According to the treaty, dispatching employees, seamen and flight attendants of Chinese investment companies, diplomatic personnel and government …

Delivery Workers (Gig Economy) in China have very little employment protection

Delivery men in China have very little employment protection, but there is an increasing number of them. The legal question here is whether these delivery men signed a delivery contract …

China: Report from Beijing Chaoyang District Court “White Paper on Trial of Labor Disputes on Internet Platforms”

Chaoyang Court is also famous in China and experienced in deciding cases regarding to online platforms. From 2015-2018, the court decided 188 cases of labor disputes on Internet platforms. In …

Article: “Understanding the administrative regulation on occupational health and trend in China”

This article discusses China’s regulatory framework in the field of occupational diseases. China’s Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Law was enacted in 2001, and the latest revision was in 2018. …

China: Student ranked first in class on civil service exam excluded by selection committee.

This is a heated topic in China nowadays, where the public believe that the selection committee by government agencies only choose the candidates they favor or who have relationship with …

Article: “China’s first transgender employment discrimination case: partial victory”

http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article43153 An appeals court in China’s southwestern city of Guiyang has maintained the original verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the country’s first lawsuit over transgender discrimination in employment. …

The cases issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on failure to pay migrant workers

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in Beijing announced 10 cases of wage arrears for agricultural workers. The maximum arrears were 13.72 million yuan. http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0206/c1001-29809386.html

Samsung sued in France for falsely advertising that their supply chain respects worker rights.

On Jan. 11, 2018 , Two French NGOs (Sherpa and ActionAid France) filed a case in Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris against Samsung France and its Korean parent company, …

China: Migrant workers and their children

There were an estimated 287 million rural migrant workers in China in 2017, making up more than one third of the entire working population. Migrant workers have been the engine …

Wages and Working Conditions in and out of Global Supply Chains: A Comparative Empirical Review (Brazil, China, Chile, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, etc.)

This research note discussed the theories about wages, working conditions and global supply chains. People interpret the relationship between global supply chains and working conditions in different theories. But we …

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