Join Harris Bricken attorneys Dan Harris and Adrián Cisneros Aguilar on Tuesday, February 8th at 2pm CST/12pm PST for a FREE webinar on Moving Your Manufacturing from China to Mexico. Both attorneys will focus on the practical aspects of successfully rearranging your value chains out of China, how to enter the Mexican market and how to operate successfully there.
The best time for implementing a set of China employer rules and regulations is when your China entity is being formed and you start recruiting employees. This allows you to have your first group of hires sign off on your employer rules and regulations and ensures you are fully covered. Our China employment attorneys recommend a yearly audit of every China company's employment documents (including their rules and regulations) to ensure they are up to date with all legal and company and employee changes.
International attorney Robert Lamb on International Supply Chain Finance -- including letters of credit -- and current challenges with international supply chains.
The International Shipping and Logistics Crisis. U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Commissioner Carl Bentzel discusses what we should expect in the future and what we can and should we be doing to resolve this crisis.
It is important to have your contracts with foreign companies be in their language as well, for a whole host of reasons. The main reason is to achieve clarity. Having a well-written contract in their native language assures you that your foreign counter-party with which you are doing business truly understands what you want of it. It puts the two of you on the same page.
There have always been benefits to international licensing, but the benefits of international licensing have increased due to COVID. and too many business owners miss the opportunity to generate revenue and increase their business' value by licensing their technology internationally.
China Employment Contracts and Double Wage Claims. If your China employee works for more than a month without a written contract, she will be entitled to a double monthly wage penalty. And if your China employee works for a year or more without a contract, she will become an open-term employee, which essentially means you must employee her until her mandatory retirement age.
Is your Company Sufficiently Diversified? Is your company "too" dependent on China for its products or its sales? What are you doing about it?
Listen HERE or stream on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Stitcher, or Soundcloud! At Harris Bricken, we keep close tabs on what is happening around the world, and we know that our friends and clients do, as well. We are happy to provide this podcast series: Global Law and Business, hosted by international attorneys Fred Rocafort and Jonathan Bench, where we look at the world
Bad manufacturing contracts lead to bad products. Nearly all companies that have product problems would have avoided those problems had they used a good contract or done their due diligence on their product supplier before paying. In this post, we explain how best to avoid these common mistakes.
