{"id":37,"date":"2006-07-28T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-07-28T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T13:20:42","slug":"whats-it-like-to-be-a-worker-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s it like to be a worker in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a New York-based labour rights group called the China Labor Watch (CLW), over 1,000 workers have rioted over poor working conditions at a factory in Guangdong province which produces toys for McDonald&#8217;s and other firms .<br \/>\nThe CLW&#8217;s investigation found that employees at the factory typically work 11 hours a day, six days a week, and build up to 70 hours of overtime a month. This violates China&#8217;s labour law, which stipulates that the normal working week is 40 hours &#8211; and anything in excess of that is overtime &#8211; and 35 hours of overtime a month.<br \/>\nMore information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china-labour.org.hk\/public\/contents\/news?revision%5fid=38853&#038;item%5fid=38852\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a New York-based labour rights group called the China Labor Watch (CLW), over 1,000 workers have rioted over poor working conditions at a factory in Guangdong province which produces toys for McDonald&#8217;s and other firms . The CLW&#8217;s investigation found that employees at the factory typically work 11 hours a day, six days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}