Foreign enterprises breaking laws will be duly punished

ON TUESDAY, a local court in Shanghai sentenced an entrepreneur with foreign citizenship to five months' detention plus a fine of 40,000 yuan ($6,082) because he owed 158 of his employees 600,000 yuan. Beijing News comments:

According to the law, every worker has the right to get paid for his or her labor. Yet in reality, some enterprises always tend to delay paying their workers using one excuse or another.

Most of the victims are manual laborers who have a relatively lower education background and fewer channels for seeking help. Worse, they also belong to a vulnerable group in society, because their incomes are low and their influence is weak.