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China Labor Law: What's Good For The Law Firm And What's Good For The Lamb.

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

Since December or so, my firm has been faced with a steady onslaught (that is definitely the right word) of China labor law work. Mostly, what we have been doing is helping companies get into compliance with China's new labor law by hammering out Chinese language contracts with their employees and by drafting Chinese language employment manuals. Almost invariably, our clients ask us if we can also help them with the day to day issues of maintaining a Chinese payroll, which mostly involves making sure the company complies with China's somewhat complicated social benefits and tax payment requirements. We then tell them they need a company that does this sort of bookkeeping/accounting work all the time and that has the systems in place to handle this sort of thing efficiently. Tim Lamb (hence the title to this post) is one of the people to whom we refer our clients. Tim is Director of FDI [Foreign Direct Investment] Services at JLJ Group, which company is licensed to provide HR dispatching and agency services in China. Dispatching is the employment of personnel. Agency services consists of managing "only the payroll, social benefits and tax payments on behalf of an employer for its own employees." I am aware of very few companies in China that can handle this work to international standards. Tim can.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).