{
  "id": 9544704,
  "title": "Chinese retail chain faces rare backlash for limiting new hires to 4-year contracts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/chinese-retail-chain-faces-rare-backlash-for-limiting-new-hires-to-4",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-24T11:19:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3368684/chinese-retail-chain-faces-rare-backlash-limiting-new-hires-4-year-contracts"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Retail tycoon Yu Donglai, widely known as China’s “most conscientious” boss, recently triggered public controversy with a proposal to sign only a four-year “training initiative” contract with future new hires, without renewing it. Yu has been nationally acclaimed for the many unconventionally humanistic rules he set up for Pangdonglai, a supermarket chain he founded in central China’s Henan…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "New Voice of Ukraine",
        "title": "Trump gives Chinese leader rare airport welcome ahead of White House talks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/trump-gives-chinese-leader-rare-airport-welcome-ahead-of-white-house",
        "published": "2026-09-24T08:46:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}