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An official poll shows the number of university graduates willing to take up a job without pay has jumped from 1.2 percent to 20 percent, highlighting the worsening unemployment situation in the country, says an article in Chongqing Times. Excerpts:
The increase in the number of graduates willing to work without pay - perhaps to gather experience - has been multifold.
But surprisingly, some people have taken it as an example of graduates becoming "more rational and realistic" in their quest for jobs. What they forget is that this development does not conform to the intensely competitive job market and the need of workers to earn money.
Making people work without paying them is against the law. Not paying a worker wages is a violation of employees' rights.
Graduates are ready to work without getting paid because they are helpless and want to gather experience to be successful in the intensely competitive job market.
So there's nothing to feel happy about the change in graduates' attitude. Rather, every sector, especially the labor authorities and enterprises, should make serious efforts to prevent employees' rights from been violated and ensure that workers are paid for their jobs.
(China Daily 05/27/2010 page9)