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The National Labor Committee is known for going after major corporations it believes have unfair labour practices. In 1996, The NLC discovered Honduran sweatshops manufacturing Kathie Lee’s clothing brand.

These excerpts were take from www.nlcnet.org. The full report comes from an anonymous Chinese labor rights activist and scholar.

Dongguan Factory Employee Daily Management Regulations

When coming and going from dormitories 1, 2 or 3 or housing outside the factory, employees are forbidden from speaking, smoking or eating with workers from other facilities.

Using the company phone, talking, eating snacks and doing things unrelated to work are all forbidden while on a regular shift or working overtime.

While working a regular shift or overtime, the work area must be kept clean and orderly. When leaving a workstation, it must be cleaned and straightened.

Workers are not allowed to bring outsiders inside to view the factory area.

When the manager arranges overtime, employees are not allowed secretly or openly to avoid overtime if they do not have permission.

It is forbidden to take cell phones to work…

Entering other dorms without permission is forbidden…

Work uniforms and flip flops may not be worn outside the factory on rest days or holidays.

Workers must cooperate with security when entering and leaving the factory gate for searches and inspections.

It is forbidden to write or draw or paste posters on the factory wall…

Every day, workers on duty will sweep the grounds, mop the floor and arrange things in their rooms, inside and out…

Workers are forbidden from changing dorm rooms or dorm beds or living outside the dorm without permission. Sharing dorm beds or letting people from outside the company live in the dorm is forbidden.

Electrical appliances and cords may not be hooked up in the dorm rooms. Food and drink may not be eaten in the dorm.

Workers are forbidden from making noise after lights go off at 11:00 p.m…

When work is finished, workers are forbidden from loitering in the cultural hall or front square.

After 10:30 p.m., workers must go to the dorm to sleep. Workers are forbidden from remaining in the factory area, smoking, loitering or having a good time.

See the full report here.