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Illegal student labour fuels JD.com ‘Singles Day’ sale

More than 100,000 workers helped JD.com sort, pack and ship $23bn of goods during China’s annual Singles Day sales event this month. 

But among them were hundreds of vocational school students, drafted into warehouses in Beijing and the eastern city of Kunshan, and told they had to work 12- to 16-hour shifts in some cases through the night, at a steep discount to the minimum wage, or face not being allowed to graduate. 

Under Chinese law, the students should not have worked any overtime or night shifts.

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