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Students Say 'no' to Summer Job Scam
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Transtlate About 200 students in Hebei Province demanded their money back for claims they had been cheated by an employment service which had found them summer jobs. They discovered that they had to work longer hours for less pay than originally promised.
The students, 190 of which from Shijiazhuang-based Hebei Vocational College of Political Science and Law, contracted Boxiang Communications, a company which claimed it connected students with summer jobs, earlier in the year to help them find work.
The company ultimately placed all 200 students with summer jobs at the Huadu Chicken Factory in Beijing preparing chicken kebabs.
According to the students, the employment service said they were to work 10 hours a day for 980 yuan ($145) a month. That did not include 5 yuan extra per day for meals and "an apartment that slept eight people to a room."
The students were asked to pay 60 yuan ($8.85) each up front in travel fees.
Together with four Huadu Chicken employees, the students were bused to Beijing last Wednesday afternoon.
Students became suspicious when upon arrival at the Changping district factory, they were charged an additional 70 yuan ($10.33) each for physical examination and 11 yuan for work license processing fee.
Furthermore, the students found their accommodations were a shabby dormitory with only a wooden bed board and rusty metal locker per person. And after talking with employees at the plant, they discovered they were to work a minimum 12 hours a day and would only be paid 600 to 700 yuan a month.
The 200 students immediately asked for a refund, but the employment service said it would only return the 60-yuan travel fee under the condition that the students signed a release saying they left on their own behalf.
The company was unable to be reached for comment. According to the local business bureau, the company is registered as a graphic design and event planning company, but not as a licensed employment agency.
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