The below is a transcription of an interview of Grace Yang on Legal Talk Radio. Grace heads up our China employment law team and the interview deals with the coronavirus’s impact on China employers and employees. But more than that, it movingly and powerfully deals with the big picture issues arising from the virus. I
Our law firm’s lead China employment lawyer, Grace Yang, will be leading a 90 minute webinar on what HR departments need to know about China employment law. China is getting a lot tougher on how foreign companies (especially American companies) in China treat their employees and staying in compliance has never been more important. See China’s
China’s economy is moribund and foreign businesses are paying the price. In an effort to minimize further losses, they are looking to cut costs. For many, this means reducing their workforce and reducing the hours of those who remain. But as Grace Yang, our lead China employment lawyer has written, the Chinese government is trying
For the last week or so, our China lawyers have been inundated by requests from employers in China for help in dealing with the many employment law issues created by the coronavirus has created. Just yesterday, our lead China employment lawyer, Grace Yang, wrote about that in Coronavirus and What China Employers Should be Doing
In going through old emails, I came across a number of them from our lead China employment lawyer (Grace Yang) to clients who had retained us to draft their China employer rules and regulations. Our China employment lawyers have been drafting a record number of China employer rules and regulations (a/k/a “employee handbooks”) because foreign
China employment law is technical and local and nearly all foreign companies get it wrong. See China Employment Law: Local and Not So Simple. It is one of the most consistent and expensive problem areas for foreign companies doing business in China and it has become a massive growth area for our law firm. More than ever,
Our international dispute resolution lawyers are involved in multiple cross border litigation matters hit hard by the coronavirus. By way of one example, depositions scheduled for Chinese witnesses are having to be cancelled for the following reasons (among others): The coronavirus is impacting pretty much everyone in China. Travel within China is impossible for some and
Earlier this year, Dan Harris of my firm wrote a Forbes Magazine article (China’s Hourly Work Week: Think Locally) on how China’s employment laws are so localized. Dan started that article with the following explanation: I have avoided writing on China employment law because it is so complicated and so localized. My fear has been
REGISTER HERE for this FREE webinar! A recording of this webinar will be made available to all registrants, so make sure you register today! China’s employment laws have always been complicated and highly local. But with the coronavirus, they have become even more local and even more complicated. Foreign companies with employees in China face China employment
Saw the following comment today and thought it would make sense to respond via this blog post, rather than directly: I never seem to have any luck getting a response on Facebook so I’ll repeat a query here: is it legal to pay the standard 13th month bonus without specifying it in the labour contract?
