Employment Discrimination In China In Pima
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The Plight of Young Professionals in China There are not enough positions for these millions of job-seekers. China's overall unemployment rate of 5.3 percent surpasses the US unemployment rate of 4.1 percent. Chinese college graduates struggle at higher rates to find jobs than their US counterparts.
The new Women's Protection Law stipulates that “the employer shall not, due to marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave, breastfeeding, and other circumstances, reduce the wages and welfare benefits of female workers, restrict the promotion, promotion, evaluation, and employment of female workers of professional and ...
Human Rights Watch found in 2020 that 11 per cent of the civil service positions advertised in China that year “specified a preference or requirement for men.” Even when women qualify, employers often probe them about marital status and family plans to avoid having to accommodate maternity leave.
Article 3 under the PRC Employment Promotion Law makes an open and not exhaustive listing of forbidden discriminating factors, 'employees shall not be discriminated due to their nationality, race, gender or religious belief, etc', which entitles gender and sexuality minorities to claim anti-discrimination rights with ...
Although Chinese society has long been characterized by deeply rooted traditional, patriarchal gender norms, egalitarian gender attitudes have become increasingly prevalent in the context of rapid economic growth accompanied by the implementation of national-level one-child policy and increasing trends in women's ...
Wage inequality. China's social structure is patriarchal, which has led to wage inequality between men and women. This is largely due to gender attitudes towards women in the workplace. Cultural norms in China have a long history of preferring men over women, which also correlates into the workplace.
State-sponsored forced labor is widespread in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region) and intersects with other egregious human rights abuses, including: mass arbitrary detention, mandatory political indoctrination, forced family separation, and pervasive surveillance.
No dedicated law against discrimination exists in seven countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland).
In China, employment must involve a written contract to be legal. An employer has a 30-day grace period to provide the contract to an employee. Failure to do so will lead to a double wage penalty to the employee for each following month that passes by without them having a written contract.
