Recent news

Latest items of recent news relevant to China as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.

China: Leave to care for sick parents

The provincial government in the central Chinese Province of Henan has approved a new regulation requiring companies to permit employees who are single offspring to take up to 20 days off work per year to care for sick parents …

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China: Transgender rights

A labour arbitration panel in Guizhou, China has dismissed a sex discrimination claim by a former transgender employee on the grounds that there was no evidence they had been dismissed because of their sexual orientation …

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China: Remuneration of interns

According to China’s Ministry of Education, the remuneration of interns recruited from ‘vocational schools’ should be determined by reference to a number of factors, including: pay for a similar job, the workload of the student, work intensity and working time …

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China: Reduction in social security rates and attempts to speed up dispute resolution

A number of local reforms are being introduced in China to reduce the financial burdens on employers and speed up the process of dispute resolution …

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China: Changing attitudes

Evidence of a changing attitude towards LGBT identities in China is evidenced by a number of recent developments …

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China: Drive to make companies go global

A new government focus is being placed on the development of the southern city of Shenzhen as a location to base Chinese multinational enterprises …

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China: Local legislators extend family-friendly benefits

Amendments to China’s Population and Family Planning Law made in December 2015 must be enacted voluntarily at a local level and only now is it possible to see in which direction local legislation is moving …

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China: Migrant workers contribute to growing trade union membership

China’s growing trade union movement is being largely fed by a high take-up amongst migrant workers entering major cities from often distant rural areas …

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China: Labour Contract Law blamed for economic slow-down

Recent critical remarks by China’s Minister of Human Resources and Social Security and also its Finance Minister reveal deep concerns in the government about the strangling effect on the economy caused by the 2007 Labour Contract Law …

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China: New rights to family-friendly leave in Shanghai

Following changes to China’s national Population and Family Planning Law, the City authorities in Shanghai have amended their local Population and Family Planning Regulations to allow people to have a second child and further reward early marriage …

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China: Positive labour market statistics amid economic slow-down

Despite the fact that China’s economy is growing more slowly than in the past, that the stock market is at a 15-month low and that the government has announced a redundancy programme affecting 15% of workers in the coal and steel industries, a number of other official statistics point to a buoyant labour market …

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China: Fears of discrimination due to policy change

The Chinese government is concerned that its new two-child policy introduced on January 1st may encourage some employers to discriminate against younger women …

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China: Paid time off proposed for painful menstruation

The government of China’s Guangdong province has proposed a regulation requiring employers to give one day off on full pay to female employees who suffer from painful menstruation …

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China: Growth of loss-making enterprises

China currently has 371,000 industrial enterprises, of which 57% are privately owned and 18% are classified as medium-to-large enterprises (MLE) …

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China: Changes to rules on remuneration of non-patented employee inventions

Following recent amendments to the law in China, employers and employees are now permitted to enter into individual agreements on how non-patented employee inventions will be remunerated …

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