In China, a local newspaper has been snapped up: it published a list of names, pilloriing 192 public and para-public employees who are paid - or whose jobs are reserved for them even though they are not paid - but who don't work. The newspaper - Yongkank Daily, in east China's Zhejiang province - used a list compiled by the city government, and which includes a deputy director of municipal administration who was granted time off work in 2003, but continued to receive the salary since then. The rules establish that public administrations can fire anyone who is absent from work for 10 consecutive days or 20 in the year.
This initiative by Yongkank Daily reveals the ferment that is going through the Chinese civil community. Prevented from using the political freedoms typical of Western countries (free elections, multipartyism…) she seeks self-affirmation in civil protest and in rebellion against the privileges of what in Italy is called the 'caste'.
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