Shanghai Municipality, Answers to Several Questions on Handling Labor Disputes Involving the Pandemic

上海市关于处理涉疫情劳动争议纠纷若干问题的解答

May 06, 2022 | BY

Susan Mok

Shanghai issues an Q&A requiring employers pay legitimate wages to employees sick with COVID-19.

Issued: April 28, 2022

Main contents: Where a worker, through no fault of his/her own, is confirmed as being a COVID-19 patient, an asymptomatic infected person or a close contact and is subject to isolation treatment or medical observation measures, making it impossible for him/her to provide normal labor service, then, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 41 of the PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the employer shall pay him/her his/her wage during isolation treatment or medical observation at the wage rate for his/her normal working hours.

If, after the end of the isolation treatment or medical observation period, the worker still needs time off for treatment, the employer shall pay him/her his/her wage in accordance with provisions on the medical treatment period for employees who have contracted an illness.

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