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Forced Overtime Without Pay, Intimidated with Job Loss if Complaints are Made

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By Ma Ma - Jan 06, 2025

Workers from Yunnan Jīng Yào Garment Company Limited, are being forced to work overtime without receiving proper compensation. Additionally, they are intimidated with blacklisting, with their names being sent to other factory owners to prevent them from getting jobs elsewhere if they report the violations. As a result, workers are facing significant difficulties.

This factory, operated by Golden Li Company, is located in Mángshì Town, Yunnan Province, China and employs over 300 workers.

Workers report that they are engaged in manufacturing Banana brand garments and are being subjected to illegal labor practices.

“The working hours are from 8:00 AM to 6:45 PM. The working hours are already 10 hours even without overtime. The basic monthly wage is set at 1,800 yuan. The overtime pay is 3 yuan per hour. Attendance bonus is 200 yuan. However, they do not offer a skill allowance. We have to work based on production targets. Overtime work is required from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM, and there is also another overtime from 9:30 PM to 11:30 PM if the work is urgent. They follow the dormitory of workers those who cannot work to call them to work. They deduct the daily wages if we refuse to work overtime. They also deduct the attendance bonuses if we don’t work on Sundays. Despite working overtime like this, they do not pay us overtime wages,” said the factory workers.

Currently, workers are being forced to work without pay, and those who file complaints are being blacklisted from getting jobs in factories within the industrial zone in Ruili.

“They make us work with percentage on garments. Additionally, they demand impossible production quotas from the workers. In reality, we never receive the production percentage bonuses. Anyone who speaks up are subjected to intimidation,” said a worker.

The workers are seeking a quick resolution to the violations they are facing in the workplace.

Many workers went to China for garment jobs after the military coup, and now they are also facing workplace rights violations in those jobs.


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