【江苏灌云电子厂工人抗议老板为避社保变相裁员】8月27日，江苏灌云县明昊电子厂伊芦分厂在已经放假两个月的情况下，再次通知停工两个月，且期间不发放任何补助。据工人透露，明昊电子厂共有三个分厂，其中两个分厂的工人由老板缴纳了社保，而伊芦分厂因地处农村、工人年龄偏大且月薪仅千余元，一直未给工人缴纳社保。近日，在劳动局要求为工人购买社保后，老板以继续放假为由，企图规避社保责任和赔偿义务，逼迫工人自行离职。工人曾要求老板每月发放数百元补助，但遭拒绝。随后，工人前往县政府维权，却未获任何回应。
[Workers at Jiangsu Guanyun Electronics Protest Boss’s Disguised Layoffs to Avoid Social Insurance]
On August 27, the Yilu branch of Minghao Electronics Factory in Guanyun County, Jiangsu, announced another two-month suspension of work without any allowances, after already being shut down for two months. According to workers, Minghao Electronics has three branches. In two of them, the boss pays workers’ social insurance, but at the Yilu branch—located in a rural area where employees are older and earn just over 1,000 yuan per month—no social insurance has ever been provided. Recently, after the labor bureau required the boss to purchase social insurance for these workers, he declared a further shutdown, in an apparent attempt to evade his social insurance obligations and compensation responsibilities, thereby pressuring workers to resign voluntarily. Workers had requested a few hundred yuan in monthly subsidies, but were refused. They then appealed to the county government, which took no action.