Hon Hai "is a microcosm of China's labor system, " said Guo Yuhua, a sociology professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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They tell of rural families impoverished and broken by a brutal migratory labor system, or the poisonous tension of youth in cramped townships.
Already, Mr. Abe has quietly put aside for now plans to overhaul a rigid labor system that makes it difficult for companies to shed staff.
Pu Zhiqiang, a lawyer who has frequently represented government critics, said the labor camp system's legality had long been in question and its elimination remained a long-term goal of legal activists.
The labor camp system originally was used to detain accused counterrevolutionaries or other critics of the Communist government, but was later expanded to punish prostitutes, drug addicts and other minor criminals.
China has allowed police to detain people for up to four years in the labor-camp system without an open trial, the Shanghai Daily reported.
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Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.
Deregulate the health care system, labor markets and utilities.
For now, it's enough to contemplate what will occur when the practice of medicine becomes detached from its past as a profession when doctors may in time come to see themselves not solely as healers but as workers, units of labor, in a system that is committed to delivering care to the greatest number.
An inefficient commercial court system, a rigid labor code, bureaucratic red tape, and persistent low-level corruption keep the private sector from performing up to its full potential.
The system has prompted one international labor organization to call for FIFA to strip Qatar of the 2022 World Cup over the treatment of its migrant workers.
The lesson we and the Lithuanians understand is that we have the freedom to succeed or fail independently as individuals and benefit from the fruits of our labor and flourish in our free enterprise system without an oppressive hand being over us.
The move would be a key step in reforming China's judicial system, though details remained unclear, including what would become of existing "reeducation through labor" camps and their current inmates and whether this presages a new system involving court hearings before defendants can be sent to such facilities.
Judy Gearhart, executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum, said workers need a system to allow them to report safety concerns without the fear of losing their jobs.
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For this reason Mr. Steuerle concludes that the Senate bill is not just a new health system but also "a new welfare and tax system" that will warp the labor market.
Beyond that, however, no major reforms have been implemented -- so the justice system remains painfully slow, the labor laws still discourage hiring while leaving millions of young people on poorly paid temporary contracts, competition remains overly restricted, too many markets are over-regulated, meritocracy remains stunted, corruption remains rife, and the huge cost of politics and political privileges has been left unchanged.
The airline botched its transition to a new computer reservation system and battled with several of its labor unions.
To those who believe athletes ought to be paid for their labor, Webber is the fall guy for a system that's horribly broken.
An antiquated financial system, poor infrastructure, an unskilled labor force, lack of hard data and a government bureaucracy that is ranked bottom by Transparency International are detrimental.
The Labor Department, for instance, uses a lockup system in which reporters with media credentials gather before 8 a.m. and receive data on the promise they won't publish before the embargo lifts at 8:30 a.m.
And third, whether many Republicans realize it or not, there is a strong conservative case to be made for fixing our immigration system by encouraging the free flow of labor and saving illegal immigrants from heavy-handed enforcement tactics.
The new approach replaces a two-decades old system of paying agencies a fixed fee for labor, regardless of results.
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China appears to be on the verge of closing, or, at minimum, seriously reforming its 350 forced labor camps, together with injecting due process into its system.
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It also plans to unshackle health-care costs from labor costs by freezing the amount employers pay into the system and shifting from income-based contributions toward a flat-rate health insurance premium.
We can take several immediate steps to reform our archaic tax system and give Americans back the fruits of their labor.
Geoff Gallop, a Labor delegate from Western Australia, put his argument for the system of direct presidential election in terms that appealed to the public.
In Sydney, Australia's commercial hub, frustration over the dearth of investment in the congested transport system helped deliver swathes of suburban seats in former Labor strongholds to the conservative Liberal-National coalition.
Prompted in part by concerns raised by the SEC and FBI, the Labor Department hired Sandia National Laboratories to audit its data-release system.
He feared that such a system would deprive the people of the fruits of their labor in a way that was not immediately apparent.
Technology columnist and analyst Rob Enderle says fans of the Linux operating system are becoming a powerful force analogous to a software labor union--or even worse, a new digital Mob.
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