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The Law is the Law Except When its not the Law

The Labor Contract Law (I almost introduced it as new, but after more than a year, can it still be deemed as new?) was supposed to be the big 'un when it came to promoting worker's rights in China and keeping business behavior in line. There were lots of... ...full story at Modern Lei Feng

from Modern Lei Feng on Tue, Feb 03 2009

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13 Dec 07		Campaign thwarts attempts to dodge new contract law » People's Daily Efforts to explain and publicize the new Labor Contract Law have thwarted many attempts to dodge the provisions included in it, but violations still occur, an official of a worker's union said yesterday. "We have been keeping an eye out ...
10 Mar 09		China won't revise labor contract law amid financial crisis: lawmaker » People's Daily China will not revise the Labor Contract Law to compromise workers' rights as suggested by some people to help enterprises cope with the global financial turmoil, a legislator said here Monday. "The labor contract law has nothing to do with the...
29 Jun 07		China's legislature adopts labor contract law » People's Daily The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress on Friday adopted a labor contract law, which is expected to improve protection of employees' legal rights following the exposure of forced labor scandals in brick kilns in central and north...
02 Feb 08		Labor contract law will not cost compliant companies much » People's Daily For any business, Chinese or foreign, the Employment Contract Law will not bring much of a financial burden, as long as they were in compliance with the old labor laws before the new law took effect on January 1, 2008. "The people who s ...
08 Dec 08		China's New Labor Contract Law. Harmonized Out Of Existence? » China Law Blog As regular CLB readers now, we have been flacking China's new labor contract law since even before its inception at the beginning of this year. Without a doubt, it has been one of our two or three most popular topics. To wit: --"China's Proposed Labor...

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