labor - Call to protect workers in foreign enterprises

The new ideological drive in China got new momentum as the National Committee of the National People's Political Consultative Conference (CCPCC), an advisory committee of the National People Congress (NPC) called for more protection of workers at foreign-invested interprises, reports AP, quoting Xinhua.

The report said low wages, unreasonable workloads and a lack of safety measures were among the major causes of an increase in collective labor disputes in the booming southern Guangdong and Fujian provinces.