Undercover journalists revealed food chain trouble

from the newspaper

Months of undercover investigations by journalists have been at the basis of the current labor problem of Pizza Hut, McDonalds and KFC, a report in the New Express reveals, here in a translation by ESWN, called "McWages in China".
The detailed report is for sure going to cause the companies involved more trouble and might signal a strategy more companies will have to face. Only after the journalists filed official complaints the labor authorities reluctantly decide to investigate the reports.

This woman is 43-years-old. She claimed to have been laid off from her previous job and her husband had died from cancer. She worked at KFC and earned 4.7 RMB per hour. At first, KFC told her to sign a full-time contract. Then they wanted her to sign a part-time contact. This woman worked at least seven hours per day. She had never taken Lunar New Year off in eight years. However, she is coming up to ten years of employment and KFC does not intend to renew the contract with her.
According to the law, any employee who works for ten years cannot be dismissed.
This woman was in tears: "KFC claims to have helped so many impoverished students and hardship cases in China. I am a single mother and I need this job to feed my family. On the last week at the end of my eighth year contract, I received a rating of 100 for my work. Now they are saying that I am too old and they won't renew my contract."

The strategy of the companies when they smelled trouble looks dubious at best: the reissued new backdated contracts. That does not sound like a company who is complying with the law.