Dongguan factories used to get away with paying no overtime and if a worker
left for CNY they knew there would be no job for them when they returned.
That ended about 5 years ago.


So they say:


According to the latest info from Taiwan’s analyst, Foxconn has arranged its iPad department to have only five days off during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, in order to meet the market demand of the iPad 3’s announcement in February. The Chinese new year will start on January 23, 2012, and Foxconn offers nine days off for the workers in other departments