Dissatisfied Chinese workers take to social media in outrage against leaders: Reports

China: The forced, dissatisfied and angry working population of China has resulted in their outrage on social media platforms criticizing their leaders, said the Indo-Pacific Centre for Strategic Communications (IPCSC). 

As per the released update, workers have raised their voices against their leaders, who had forced them to work overtime and without remuneration in some cases. The labour laws made in 1995 to limit the work week to five days have been violated by many Chinese companies, reports added. 

The accused companies have been violating the workers’ rights and defrauding them routinely. The companies tend to fire the workers in case they try to form a workers union and cut their wages. They were forced to do double shifts, excluding all the promised benefits, along with harassing the female workers by their bosses.  

The violation of Chinese workers has now become a never-ending problem. A report by IPCSC has stated that many training programs with fraudulent scams are prevalent in China, made to cheat the naïve and poor along with putting the women into prostitution. 

The workers who migrated from other regions are hired at the bus and train stations with promised good wages which never handed over to them. 

The rules such as rest, vacation and laws and regulations regarding overtime work have yet to be implemented on the ground level by the companies. 

The daily working hours of the workers should be, at most, the limit of 8 hours as per the labour law of 1995 of the Public Republic of China. The average working hours of the workers should also be at most 44 hours. 

In terms of working overtime, the labour law states that it should not exceed 1 hour per day, and in some special cases, the working hours should not exceed 3 hours a day as per the worker’s health conditions. The weekly hours regarding overtime should be at most 36 hours per month, reported IPCSC.