Factories Are Sending Many Workers Home for Holiday 2 Months Early

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Keith Bradsher and Ailin Tang, Chinese Workers Get three-Month Holiday. Unpaid. Slumping housing and car sales intensify pressure on Xi. New York Times, Dec 15, 2018 (front page)
("Some factories are letting workers off for the big Lunar New Year holiday two months early. * * * Gauging the magnitude of slowdown [in China] is difficult, given the unreliability of China's economic data. But there are signs that the country's problems are deepening [as stated in the title]")

My comment: There is no need to read the rest. The report naturally can not say how widespread the practice is.