A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

  • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Most payments in China are monthy, not weekly/bi-weekly as with in the west.

    Where in “the west” do you live? My paychecks (Switzerland) are definitely monthly.

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      4 days ago

      I only ever heard of North Americans getting paid weekly/bi-weekly as standard.

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        1 day ago

        A bunch of Europeans in this comment section forgetting there are more “western” countries than just western Europe and the USA/north America.

        Fortnightly is the most common in Australia, with some people paid monthly also (depends on the company).

        And thankful for this. Monthly sounds terrible

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          Notice how I specifically talked about places I heard of, never claimed I knew of every country. And I don’t really care one way or another myself tbh, I guess monthly mostly serves to reduce paperwork. More frequent sounds like it might better as the employee.