Shanghai Daily news

The Shanghai Labor and Social Security Bureau announced yesterday that it handled 18,041 labor disputes last year, an increase of 16 percent from 2003.
Up to 97 percent of the disputes were filed by local individual employees who finally won 86 percent of the cases after arbitration. The number of cases involving privately owned companies jumped by 20.3 percent to reach 7,249, accounting for 40 percent of last year's total number. Foreign-invested companies saw their case number increase less than 1 percent. Most of the disputes revolved around social insurance, wages, economic compensation and contract termination.