Labor Rights Protection · Full chronicle and history

The 52nd G7 Summit was held in France, and the meeting issued a joint statement opposing any unilateral attempts to change the status quo, especially opposing any attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.

Employees of Xi'an Feibao Technology publicly complained about the company executive. It is reported that the company is a core supplier to the People's Liberation Army.

On September 16, a BYD employee had their corporate WeChat account banned after sending an open letter to their department opposing the company's policy of deducting performance pay based on rankings. The employee had previously organized colleagues to sign a petition against the pay cuts, but after being warned by department heads, only six people participated.

An employee of the milk tea shop “Yidian Dian” discovered a foreign object in the black tea, reported it to quality control and was instructed to remove it and continue using it. The employee later applied for arbitration due to an irregular labor contract, and the company sent someone to his grandparents’ home to threaten them in order to force him to give up defending his rights.

On September 12, 2026, Jianlu Clothing Co., Ltd. in Suqian, Jiangsu Province was exposed by a current employee who claimed that in August 2026 the company arranged employees to work more than 350 hours, and also deducted overtime pay, failed to fully pay social insurance, and covertly forced employees to resign. The employee said that long-term excessive overtime had caused serious bodily damage. Subsequently, the employee submitted a report to the local labor inspection department and formally delivered a "Notice of Forced Termination of Labor Relationship" to the company.

The lawsuit filed by Hong Kong Journalists Association Chairwoman Ronson Chan Man-fai against Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, over his dismissal has concluded. The court ruled that Dow Jones obstructed the exercise of union rights, but the claim of illegal dismissal was not established. Sentencing will be scheduled for a later date.

After inquiring about vacation policies, netizens are refusing to consume from or are returning goods from companies that do not provide two-day weekends, focusing on labor rights.

A Victoria's Secret employee in Zhejiang had their request for care leave for their mother's lung cancer surgery rejected by their supervisor. After posting on social media and complaining to the headquarters, they were granted paid leave, and subsequent related public opinion was deleted by the platform.

Liu Xiang posted that he received a 494,000 yuan buyout fee on September 1 and officially bid farewell to the system, and will donate the entire amount of over 980,000 yuan in salary earned over the 11 years since his retirement to the China Charity Federation for disaster relief in Tibet.

A Tastin store in Shandong restricted employees' restroom use by requiring them to make up the time, forced them to clock in early and clock out late, and coerced employees into signing contracts voluntarily waiving their social security.

Chery Automobile employees posted on an internal forum questioning the ban on combining holidays during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, sparking resonance among employees regarding high-pressure overtime and strict leave policies; the post was subsequently deleted.

Videos posted by netizens in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, show that more than 200 workers picking potatoes were housed in simple sheds, with men and women sleeping together in large open dormitories, and the living environment was extremely primitive.

Starting from September 4, a netizen continuously posted multiple articles about their experience leaving military civilian personnel, questioning that the evaluation mechanism was used as a means to make civilian personnel resign. The netizen stated that they once asked for the reason why the evaluation was "unqualified", and the reply they received was: "The leadership decided you are unqualified!" The netizen also posted the "Civilian Personnel Employment Contract" and the "Civilian Personnel Employment Contract Termination Certificate", and said: "Wanting to make someone... #RebelAcademy

A delivery worker publicly issued a statement expressing his desire to run for the National People's Congress to speak on behalf of millions of delivery workers and promote industry improvements.

According to a report by the English edition of the Chosun Ilbo, the US Senate Armed Services Committee has for the first time included the malicious influence of the CCP within South Korea as a matter of special concern in its draft report for the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act.

At the Shenzhen import and export trade fair, due to a scarce turnout of buyers and suspicions of hiring fake foreigners to pad attendance, hundreds of exhibitors staged a collective protest demanding refunds of tens of thousands of yuan in exhibition fees, while a large contingent of SWAT police confronted and suppressed them at the scene.

After the National Bureau of Statistics released stable data showing a decline in the urban unemployment rate from January to May, the topic "I really want to know how many unemployed people there are now" surged to fourth place on Weibo's hot search list, triggering a massive wave of netizen commentary venting about employment difficulties.

An 18-year-old boy in Kaizhou District, Chongqing, jumped into the river after being chased by fishery administration personnel while fishing downstream of a regulating dam. Law enforcement officers failed to rescue him, triggering protests from onlookers and family members on the shore, which were suppressed by the police.

On Nov 9, a delivery courier publicly called out Liu Qiangdong, criticizing JD Delivery's "0.01-yuan treat" promotional event. The event forced merchants to bear the costs and drastically lowered courier delivery fees, causing courier earnings per order to drop far below normal levels, which triggered strong backlash from both merchants and couriers.