“Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” more ›

Information continues to trickle in ever-so-slowly on the so-called new social benefits system that China is rolling out for expatriates here. Now, they're saying some -- not all of us! -- will be allowed to retire and to withdraw our pensions here. But who will get it, and who won't? Nobody seems sure. more ›

A property developer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, not only refused to pay its 2,000 migrant workers' wages on time, but also beat them up when they had the audacity to demand for payment, leaving 37 wounded. more ›

Last month's horrifying rear-end collision on the Shanghai Metro saw 284 people hospitalised and while thankfully nobody died from the incident, many questions remain unanswered. more ›

A new social insurance law that will apply to foreign employees from July 1 may make it significantly more expensive for companies in China to hire expatriates. more ›

Former president of Google China, Kaifu Lee, tweets: "Top-class people hire top-class people. Second-class people hire third-class people. So as soon as you see second-class people entering your company, you know it's downhill from there. (The logic behind the two earlier sentences: Only top-class people have the self-confidence to bring in other top-class people, everyone else shies away from doing that.)" more ›

Sorry about the Foxconn overload lately but we thought this little hack job seen on the Foxconn HR site was kinda funny:

Foxconn -- We're Hiring more ›

Beijing News reports a weird measure taken in a company in southern China. According to aujourdhuilachine.com, a company that makes loudspeakers has demanded that its employees keep quiet during work hours — otherwise they'll be asked to wear a protection mask for 3 days! The company explained the decision (taken in May) that they want to preserve the production's quality standards:

"If our employees talk, they are bound to splutter and it will do harm to the equipment parts."

People Daily has this short two-paragraph news item on the latest developments in starting pay for fresh graduates:

The Education and Economic Research Institute of Peking University and the Institute for Higher Education recently issued the "2007 employment situation for college graduates" survey results. The investigation revealed that the employment rate of graduates in 2007 reached 70%; the average starting salary for graduates was 1,798 yuan; and half of graduates received less than 1,500 yuan. The employment rate of college graduates is worse than that of junior college students. more ›