Comments on: In Praise of Sweatshops http://www.chinahearsay.com/in-praise-of-sweatshops/ China law, business and economics commentary Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:44:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Yokie Kuma http://www.chinahearsay.com/in-praise-of-sweatshops/comment-page-1/#comment-65235 Yokie Kuma Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:48:41 +0000 http://www.chinahearsay.com/?p=1252#comment-65235 Interestingly enough, in a similar vein, I schedule annual social audits of the factories my company buys from. These audits have a requirement that the factory follows the legal labor law on hours and overtime and vacation time. The law states only 36 hours of OT per month. This works out to a little more than an hour per day. Workers have gone on strike here in SZ if they only get 1 hour per day OT. They move here from their hometown and want to get as much $ as possible in as short a time and go home. Not enough OT means spending another year or so in SZ. They go on strike, mor more likely, get a job in a different factory where the Western customer is not enforcing China labor laws .... Interestingly enough, in a similar vein, I schedule annual social audits of the factories my company buys from. These audits have a requirement that the factory follows the legal labor law on hours and overtime and vacation time. The law states only 36 hours of OT per month. This works out to a little more than an hour per day.

Workers have gone on strike here in SZ if they only get 1 hour per day OT. They move here from their hometown and want to get as much $ as possible in as short a time and go home. Not enough OT means spending another year or so in SZ. They go on strike, mor more likely, get a job in a different factory where the Western customer is not enforcing China labor laws ….

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