Labour Law

Shanghai Higher People's Court Promulgated the Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Labour Contract Law

On March 3, 2009, Higher People's Court of Shanghai Municipal, in the form of instructional opinions, promulgated the Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Labour Contract Law (hereinafter referred to as "the Opinions") to all levels of the Courts of Shanghai consisting of 22 articles in all, which actually plays the role of Judicial Interpretations and solves part of the sharp difficulties in provision application and equals the interests between employees and employers. Hereby, we translated the Opinion (see http://www.giprs.org/node/499) for your reference.

China Labor Contract Law

The Labor Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China was adopted by the Decision of the twenty-eighth Session of the Standing Committee of the tenth People's Congress on June 29, 2007 and shall come into force upon January 1, 2008. In comparison with the Labor law enacted in 1994, under this law protection laborers shall be improved and management costs of human resources undertaken by employers shall go up accordingly.

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