A man sacked for attending his father’s funeral and a woman dismissed after she refused to stay late at work to practise dancing for the company’s annual party are at the centre of two labour disputes that have challenged China’s grind-it-out work culture.
The disputes have sparked fierce criticism online from workers protesting gruelling demands of Chinese bosses that make them feel like slaves; forced to do what they say or suffer the consequences.
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