According to the Beijing Times, Haidian District in Beijing has offered CNY13.1 million as employment and social insurance subsidies to eight Chinese companies that have been hit by the global financial crisis.

By ChinaCSR.com Editors This last week produced a gamut of Chinese corporate social responsibility activity that ran from foreign companies companies downsizing their staff to safety issues still surrounding producers of milk products.

Foxconn, one of the world's largest electronics OEMs, is said to be reducing staff without declaring the cuts.

The Federation of Trade Unions of Yiwu in Zhejiang Province is making preparations for the trial implementation of a corporate social responsibility standard.

Shenzhen Bureau of Labor and Social Security has promulgated a notice listing 30 enterprises who have failed to pay their employees, with the total arrears reaching more than CNY12 million.

The new trade union website of China at workercn.cn has opened just before the 15th National Congress of Chinese Trade Unions to be held on October 17 to 21 in Beijing.

A spokesman for Huawei Technologies, which was accused of illegal employment practices by the Indian Government, said to local media that the company has already received the letter by Indian Government, and it has begun to deal with the problems the Indian Ministry of Labor and Employment had mentioned in that letter.