China: Surveys reveal work resumption situation during and after COVID-19 outbreak

Autor(a): Labour Action China

"Research report phase 2.0 of work resumption situation in China: Private firms may become the most important section in employment maintenance", 16 July 2020

... As the pandemic severity has decreased and production has gradually resumed, a labour organization in Guangdong launched the second phase of online survey research on work resumption situation during April 17 to 27, 2020…

... 87% of respondents needed to wear protective gears and 75% of them received free protective items from their employers...

 ... more than 60% of the interviewees worried about infecting COVID-19 from working...

 ... Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Finance and National Health Commission co-issued an announcement to clarify under what conditions, the employees with COVID-19 infection would be classified as occupational injuries victims: employees involving COVID-19 prevention and treatment related work who infected COVID-19 or died due to COVID-19 infection during job duties performing.

However, more than 86% of the participants claimed that infecting COVID-19 when performing job duties should be regarded as work-related injuries…

... more than 8% of the interviewees was quarantined, with unsatisfactory labour right conditions.

41% of the quarantined interviewees need to pay the quarantine fee by themselves; Nearly 30% of the quarantined interviewees received no salary payment during the quarantine period...

... labour right conditions during quarantine period varied in a wide range among private firms...

According to the answers, 100 respondents had colleagues came back to work from Hubei province. 74% of the 100 participants reported that Hubei staff in their company was required to be quarantined. 11% of the interviewees shared that their enterprises had asked employees from Hubei province to work separately from other staff, 6% shared that their enterprises had lowered the salary level of Hubei employees and 2% shared that their enterprises had terminated the employment relations with Hubei employees. Moreover, 6% of our respondents shared that their enterprises had banned Hubei colleagues to go back to work. Only 10% reported about normal salary payment for their Hubei colleagues... 

... around 63% of the interviewees reported that there were not violations of labour rights without going through democratic mediation in their enterprises. In other words, about 37% of the participants suffered from this problem...

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Autor(a): Labour Action China

“Survey report of work resumption condition during the COVID-19 outbreak in China: Fewer than 30% of employees received normal wage payment during the delayed work resumption period”, 15 July 2020

Affected by the novel coronavirus outbreak, suspension of work and production was applied in various industries, followed by the problems of employees’ wage payment during the delayed work resumption period (and work resumption period)…

To learn about the labour rights issues during COVID-19 spreading period, a labour organization in Guangdong province conducted an online survey about work resumption conditions. Two hundred and ten valid responses were collected…

… Instead of the full picture of labour right issues in China, this report aims at providing information related to salary payment of a small proportion of Chinese employees during the delayed work resumption period, with support of real data…

From the survey, nearly 80% of the employees delayed their work resumption due to the COVID-19, but no more than 30% of them received full payment during the special period.

Salary cut, increased workloads or even unemployment caused pressures on the labour. Because of the large labour force size in China, 6% dismissal rate could reflect a significant number of unemployed people when more enterprises resume production…

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