They are paid 24 cents per hour, below the legal minimum wage of 33 cents an hour in Shenzhen province where Kin Ki is located. Most do not have pensions, medical benefits, or employment 7:30 A.M. and continues contracts.
Production starts at until 10 PM., with breaks only for lunch and dinner Saturdays and Sundays are treated as normal workdays This translates into a workweek of seven 12-hour days, or 84 hours a week, well above the standard 40 hour week set by authorities in Shenzhen.
Local rules also allow for no more than 32 hours of overtime and stipulate that the employees must be paid 1.5 times the standard hourly wage, but Kin Ki's overtime rate is just 1.3 times base pay