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-- excessive over time is mandatory at below the legal double hourly pay rate for daytime work on weekends;
-- by law, workers can cancel their labor contracts by giving 30 days notice, but are penalized by loss of wages when they do;
-- they live 12 to a room in crowded dorms of around 200 square feet with ten cold showers for 264 workers;
-- pollution levels are oppressive; workers describe discharged black, foul smelling effluent into the adjacent river; and
-- at the end of every work day, body searches are conducted, similar to but not full strip searches.
Genford employs a complex system of bonuses and fines to achieve output. Workers get bonuses for meeting quotas that must be maintained hourly, but no one understood how they're calculated. They also complained that they're hard to reach, and they're constantly pressured to work faster for maximum production. In addition, fines are levied for arriving a few minutes late, leaving early, skipping work, or causing trouble.
It's also not easy to quit even though Article 37 of China's Labor Law lets workers do it by giving 30 days advance written notice or three days during their probationary periods. Employers must then fully compensate workers, but they don't.
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