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One of the most contentious provisions of the law is Article 14.

Under this, workers who have served 10 straight years or two consecutive fixed-term employment contracts with a company would automatically migrate to an “open-ended contract”. An open-ended contract would give employees greater job security since it would provide for employment-until-retirement and dismissal only with ‘just cause’ (such as breach of contract); it would also provide for a higher severance pay in the event of a layoff, even which would be enforced only in more restrictive circumstances.

In effect, according to Dickson, the new law “re-establishes the Iron Rice Bowl” - the extraordinary welfare benefits and employment for life that Chinese businesses extended to their employees until the 1990s.

The provisions of Article 14 have so unnerved companies operating in China that some of them are resorting to dubious means to sidestep it.

Earlier this month, Chinese telecom equipment supplier Huawei initiated a programme of “voluntary resignation” of 7,000 long-term workers - with plans to rehire them on fixed-term contracts.

But under pressure from key New Left supporters of the law, and China’s only official trade union, the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), Huawei was forced to suspend it.

China is now looking to establish some of the fundamentals needed to raise living standards - such as a fair wage. But ironically, it is precisely those provisions of the law that would “de-casualise” labour and restore the Iron Rice Bowl that have employers running scared.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I don't mean to speak for R. Guyovich but I've never seen him claim that China is Maoist.

Infernot posted:

Need I say more, Western (imperialist core) leftist???

namesake posted:

The loving state of this argument.

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Oh, fair enough. Might’ve assumed. Though that just makes it more puzzling.

Typo posted:

every single one of those guys in that room have overseas bank accounts with millions of $$$ in it

marx would indeed be proud

Karl Barks posted:

(cradling back and forth) 70% right.. 30% wrong... 70% right.... 30% wrong...

Typo posted:

every single one of those guys in that room have overseas bank accounts with millions of $$$ in it

marx would indeed be proud

Yandat posted:

in china are most flats basically condos you own? because i can’t imagine that means most chinese millennials have a back yard and white picket fence

Larry Parrish posted:

say what you will about china but its pretty fail that the state that invented landlord murder also brought back landlords

Ace of Baes posted:

https://twitter.com/EternalBolshie/status/1012735678671618048?s=19

Rhukatah posted:

The French invented and rejected the revolutionary calendar. The British abolished and brought back their monarchy. Sometimes nations try things and then don't stick with them. Why must you hold China to such a uniquely high standard?

Rhukatah posted:

The French invented and rejected the revolutionary calendar. The British abolished and brought back their monarchy. Sometimes nations try things and then don't stick with them. Why must you hold China to such a uniquely high standard?

rudatron posted:

Metric time was unironically good

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Last I heard China had the whole problem where they keep building entire cities with malls and residential complexes that no one wants to live in yet. The big difference probably is that they're actually building affordable, high-density housing because they don't give a poo poo about NIMBYs.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Last I heard China had the whole problem where they keep building entire cities with malls and residential complexes that no one wants to live in yet. The big difference probably is that they're actually building affordable, high-density housing because they don't give a poo poo about NIMBYs.

i say swears online posted:

i would kill for just one goddamn planned city in the states. take a low electoral-vote state with plenty of access to water like mississippi or iowa and just make a new port. there would be huge demand for that sort of thing if there were giant apartment towers with controlled rent

i say swears online posted:

i would kill for just one goddamn planned city in the states. take a low electoral-vote state with plenty of access to water like mississippi or iowa and just make a new port. there would be huge demand for that sort of thing if there were giant apartment towers with controlled rent

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

now, what's more noteworthy, that CGTN gave coverage to a Pride event in Spain? or that CGTN casually didn't mention that it was a Pride event?

both maybe?

R. Guyovich posted:

the rainbow flag as lgbt symbol isn't some alien idea to chinese people

R. Guyovich posted:

the rainbow flag as lgbt symbol isn't some alien idea to chinese people