There were 980,969 work-related accidents resulting in injury in the first 11 months of 2002 and they caused the death of more than 124,500 people, China Daily said. The figures were released by Wang Xianzheng, head of the state administration of work safety in a national televised conference on work safety held in January. He […]
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International accounting group Ernst & Young has moved several of its top tax advisors from its Hong Kong office to head its tax offices in Beijing and Shanghai, South China Morning Post reported. The company said that it would also bring in experts from Europe and the US to lead an expansion of its China […]
There were more than 300,000 expatriates working in Shanghai by the middle of 2002, about one-third more than at the same time in 2001, Shanghai Daily News said. The number of foreigners receiving employment certificates in the first half of 2002 was 3,826, an increase of 43 per cent. Foreign experts comprised 80,000 of the […]
The proportion of unemployed urban workers at the end of September was 3.9 per cent, having risen from 3.6 per cent at the end of 2001, according to figures released by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. At the end of that month, 7.5m urban workers were officially unemployed with a further 4.4m 'laid […]
China's estimated 94 million migrant workers are owed as much as RMB 100 billion (US$12 billion) in unpaid wages, according to government trade union figures. Up to 70% of the unpaid wages are in the building industry, with a large proportion of the remainder in the service industry, especially restaurant and food businesses. Fearing the […]