After leaving his job without warning, a shoe factory worker was shocked to be handed a bag of coins weighing 10.3kg (22.6lbs) as his final pay packet. Xiao Wang started to work in the shoe factory in Xindian village, Jinjiang, in March. However, at the beginning of July he informed his employers that he had to leave due to ill health. Wang wanted to quit immediately but the factory bosses insisted that he had to work till the end of the month. In response Wang complained to the local Workers' Union and the Bureau of Labour and his employers relented. Wang was then told to come in and pick up his final pay packet, and he discovered that he had been paid in low denomination coins and notes...

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