China’s white-clad pandemic “volunteers” protest unpaid wages, poor working conditions

Shanghai resumes production; SHEIN business model creates e-commerce competition affecting workers’ livelihoods; several workers at manufacturing conglomerate BYD commit suicide in Changsha; Meituan introduces workplace safety measures for delivery drivers; migrant and youth unemployment rates rise; and the Vocational Education Law gets a revision.

Pandemic-related restrictions on movement and economic conditions have uniquely affected China’s truck drivers

In this edition: Shanghai under the Omicron wave; internet companies lay off workers; how companies are dodging labour laws; unpaid wages for China’s football teams

CLB’s Workers’ Calls-for-Help Map has logged numerous examples of frontline workers’ rights being violated all while they work to support the lockdown

Administrative penalties not sufficient to save the lives of 22 workers in Guizhou province

In this edition: Workers in the pandemic, tech layoffs, parcel delivery rate cuts, food delivery workers’ rewards and punishments, age limits in construction industry, overtime culture, vocational student intern deaths, and a rise in teacher qualification applications

Frontline workers have borne the brunt of the latest wave of Covid-19 hitting Shanghai and Shenzhen especially hard