From the Chinese Press

Treat low-end workers better

Experience has shown that the shortage of workers always peaks after Spring Festival in big cities like Beijing. What needs reflecting on is that most of the jobs vacated are the low-end and poorly paid ones. If employers treated low-end workers better it would not be that difficult to recruit, says an article in Qianjiang Evening News. Excerpts:

Low-end service workers are more discriminated against than high-end workers, such as those in the financial sector. The low-end service workers have a humble social status, earn much less and are finding it increasingly difficulty to deal with the soaring living costs in big cities like Beijing.