Labor Law

The Implementing Regulations provide further details to the PRC Employment Contract Law concerning the conclusion of employment contracts, termination and ending of employment contracts, and placement.

After 12 months of innovative and pioneering work and four months of research, interviewing and profiling, the 2008 China Law & Practice awards were presented in Beijing on September 18. The winning deals and firms were recognised for their impact on China's legal community.

Companies had been expecting clarification from China's Implementing Regulations for its Employment Contract Law in September. But many of the more ambitious provisions remain unsolved.

Companies had been expecting clarification from China's Implementing Regulations for its Employment Contract Law in September. But many of the more ambitious provisions remain unsolved.

NPC passes law to protect employment of disabled persons.

Minimum wage in Beijing raised.

Guangdong clarifies issues arising from the Employment Contract Law.

Sexual harassment in the workplace in the PRC is more common than some would think. Women working in the PRC gained significant additional rights in 2005 when the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress amended (the 2005 Amendment) the Law for the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests of the PRC1 (Women's Protection Law) to prohibit sexual harassment against women for the first time Lesli Ligorner from Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker discusses how the 2005 Amendment has failed to protect women from sexual harassment.

Guangdong is the first province to have issued a guiding opinion on the labour laws. The opinion attempts to clarify some of the ambiguities in the PRC Employment Contract Law, which took effect in January this year. But the issuance of the rules has caused considerable controversy, with some arguing the Guangdong authorities do not have the right to issue guiding opinions and that some its contents are, as a result, against the national law.