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China’s police go after runaway bosses

With the traditional Lunar New Year holiday approaching, police across China have launched high-profile campaigns to crackdown on the malicious non-payment wages (恶意拖欠). An amendment to China’s Criminal Law early last year, which criminalized the non-payment of wages, has allowed police to detain factory bosses and labour contractors who flee owing large numbers of workers hundreds of thousands of yuan in unpaid wages.

Bloomberg: Foxconn Says 150 Workers at Southern China Plant Protest Redeployment

Foxconn Technology Group (FOXCGZ), maker of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and parts for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox game console, said 150 workers at a southern China factory protested against a plan to transfer them to another business unit.

APM Marketplace: Chinese laborers take drastic measures for a raise

Word today out of China that 150 workers at a factory that makes iPhones all threatened to jump from the top of the building if they didn't get a raise. Those workers at the Foxconn plant did get a raise. It's the same company that got a lot of press over the past few years for a rash of suicides there among workers, but these aren't the only workers protesting work conditions and pay in the country.

Strikes and protests continue into the New Year

The recent upsurge in worker activism in China is continuing into the New Year with five more strikes and protests in five different provinces getting media attention last week.

The Hindu: Where they trade in fear

The detention of two Indians by Chinese businessmen has shed light on the tough, uncompromising and often lawless business environment in which foreign enterprises, lured by lucrative profits, operate in some southern Chinese trading towns.

SCMP: Shenzhen 'wants to kill' HK factories

Shenzhen's minimum wage will rise from next month, ending a one-month delay to the increase rather than a year-long grace period that angry Hong Kong manufacturers had asked the municipal authorities for in December.

Beijing raises minimum wage, Shenzhen to follow next month

The Beijing municipal government increased the capital’s minimum wage by 8.6 percent on 1 January this year, and the Shenzhen government has announced it will increase its minimum wage to 1,500 yuan a month on 1 February, making it once again the highest minimum wage in China.

APM Marketplace: How China is feeling the euro debt crisis

With such a shoddy economy, Europeans aren't buying as many Chinese goods. And China today said its industrial output slowed -- again. Marketplace's Rob Schmitz reports from Shanghai now, regular and overtime pay is down for thousands of factory workers. And street protests are up.

Guangdong reportedly postpones minimum wage increase

A planned increase in Guangdong’s minimum wage of up to 20 percent, which was scheduled to go into effect on 1 January next year, has been put on hold, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper reported today.

Time: Amid Slowdown, Increasing Labor Strife in China's Manufacturing Belt

China's economic planners face several headaches: bursting credit bubbles, slumping housing sales and poor outlooks in exports markets such as the U.S. and Europe. To that list add another concern, the return of labor unrest in manufacturing regions in south China. Factory workers have launched a series of strikes in recent weeks. While the labor actions have yet to cause widespread unrest, they are the most significant since workers at several foreign-owned plants went on strike in the summer of 2010.

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