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Coal mine uses workers with learning difficulties
By Zhang Xuanchen |
October 13, 2010, Wednesday
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A COAL mine in east China's Anhui Province has drawn public anger for illegally hiring nearly eight people with learning difficulties for work without pay.
The workers, barefooted and wearing shabby clothes, were hired to fetch bricks by handcars all day in the dusty mine in Sanjue Township, which is owned by a man surnamed Cao from Henan province, reported today's Shanghai Morning Post.
An experienced worker told reporters that the tasks the mentally-disabled miners did was among the "dirtiest and most exhausting work" which other workers were reluctant to touch.
All of the workers were non-locals provided by a man named Liu Jinshan, a Henan native, who took charge of the brick fetching work in the mine and earned nearly 25,000 yuan (US$ 3,747) a month, said a man named Tang Wei responsible for watching the mine.
In contrast with Liu, the workers he found were paid nothing except a cigarette or a bottle of beer if "they performed well".
A worker surnamed Cai said he had no memory of how he came here or where his home was. If he worked hard, his meal would be better at night, the newspaper said.
Tang said the workers' salaries were included in the money the mine offered Liu, with 250 yuan for fetching 10,000 bricks. Tang said they didn't know about the worker's mental status because the recruitment work was done by Liu and outsourced from the mine.
The workers, barefooted and wearing shabby clothes, were hired to fetch bricks by handcars all day in the dusty mine in Sanjue Township, which is owned by a man surnamed Cao from Henan province, reported today's Shanghai Morning Post.
An experienced worker told reporters that the tasks the mentally-disabled miners did was among the "dirtiest and most exhausting work" which other workers were reluctant to touch.
All of the workers were non-locals provided by a man named Liu Jinshan, a Henan native, who took charge of the brick fetching work in the mine and earned nearly 25,000 yuan (US$ 3,747) a month, said a man named Tang Wei responsible for watching the mine.
In contrast with Liu, the workers he found were paid nothing except a cigarette or a bottle of beer if "they performed well".
A worker surnamed Cai said he had no memory of how he came here or where his home was. If he worked hard, his meal would be better at night, the newspaper said.
Tang said the workers' salaries were included in the money the mine offered Liu, with 250 yuan for fetching 10,000 bricks. Tang said they didn't know about the worker's mental status because the recruitment work was done by Liu and outsourced from the mine.
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