Guangzhou City, Urgent Circular on Strengthening the Administration of Mass Layoffs by Employers
广州市关于加强对用人单位规模性裁员管理的紧急通知
Guangzhou issued urgent circular to prevent companies from getting around the PRC Employment Contract Law.
Date:
February 2008
CLP Reference: 2400/07.12.14/GZ
Promulgated: 14 December 2007
Keywords (click to search): [PRC Employment Contract Law] [Guangzhou mass layoffs] [terminate employment relationships] [terminate or end employment contracts]
Issued: December 14 2007
Applicability: This Circular shall apply to enterprises, family proprietorships, private non-enterprise work units, state authorities, public institutions and social organizations under Guangzhou city or under a level below the city (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Employers") that terminate or end employment contracts or terminate actual employment relationships (Terminate Employment Relationships) under guises such as dismissal, proposing resignation by the workers, changing the entity that acts as employer (including a change into a temp agency or labour contractor), or amending its employment contracts, in each case in order to carry out mass layoffs, regardless of whether the relevant workers are re-employed after such a layoff, or the relevant workers are used again by the same work unit after a different Employer enters into employment contracts with them (Article 1).
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