Labor arbitration cases soaring

GUANGZHOU: High numbers of company closures and large-scale redundancies have led to a surge in labor arbitration cases here, a senior official said on Monday.

Xie Yingjian, director of the arbitration office of the Guangzhou labor and social security bureau, said that by the end of last month, more than 60,000 applications had been made for arbitration this year.

The figure is about the same as the combined total for the previous two years, he said.