Labor & Employment Law

China's New Labor Contract Law -- In English
China Law & Practice Magazine just came out with a very good English language translation of China's new Labor Contract Law here. For more on China's new labour law, check out the following: -- "China's Proposed Labor Law:Going After Capitalists Like China, 1967" -- "China's Proposed Labor Law Causing Sucking Sounds" -- "China's New Labor Law -- It's A Huge Deal...

Inherent Limitations On Chinese Law: Poor People Need Not Apply.
And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you the right?" "To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in" "If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner...

A Reason to Have Faith in China's Legal System: The Labor Contract Law
NPR's All Things Considered did a piece recently on the new labor contract law in China. The show barely skimmed the surface of the new law, summarizing it as "a new law requiring businesses to give workers written contracts and pay compensation if they're fired...

The Impact Of China's New Labor Contract Law
Very good Washington Post article by very good WaPo reporter Ariana Eunjung Cha on the impact of China's new labor contract law. The article is entitled "New Law Gives Chinese Workers Power, Gives Businesses Nightmares" and it presents a fair and balanced view of what this new law is doing to the employer-employee relationship in China...

China's New Labor Law: Results Still To Be Determined
Yale Online just came out with a very thorough and objective article on China's new labor law. The article, entitled, "An Uncertain Victory for China?s Workers," is written by Lyle Morris, of China Economist Magazine...

China's New Labor Law -- Just Deal With It.
Meganshank.com has an excellent post up on China's new labor law, entitled, "Dealing With It: MNCs learn to cope with the Labor Law." Ms. Shank is a reporter with Newsweek Select (Newsweek's China Edition, not to be confused with China Newsweek) who writes her articles in Chinese...

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