China considers making bosses pay workers for online ‘invisible overtime’
- Trade union federation chief says top political advisory body has accepted his proposal on legal protection for those ‘working overtime online’
- Supreme court says it has set standards to protect offline rest and reward workers for online overtime
Lyu Guoquan, head of the general office of China’s trade union federation, proposed to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) last week that the country create a legal definition and compensation framework for “working overtime online”.
Lyu told China National Radio on Sunday that the proposal had been accepted by the country’s top political advisory body, and various government agencies would begin discussing the idea with him.
The CPPCC, which ended its weeklong annual meeting on Sunday, did not independently confirm the decision.
The issue was also raised on Friday by the president of the Supreme People’s Court, who highlighted such “invisible overtime” in his work report to the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature.
