The negative impacts on working conditions caused by the pandemic has weakened. However, it has still created long-term negative impacts on workers’ personal livings.

Both the pandemics and long-lasting structural factors also gave rise to layoffs, outstanding wages, and other labour deprivations in small-scaled companies

The economic disadvantage of female workers under the pandemic is closely related to the said structural factors.

This study reveals a significant number of firms' unlawful activities, such as illegal dismissal, wage cut, delayed wage payment and non-payment.

The basic labour right problems of labour contract and social insurance in Henan Province and the issue had existed before the epidemic outbreak.

*This report was written by a labour organization in Guangdong province, and the author owns the copyrigh