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No revision of employment law expected

Legal burdens could lead to more short-term employment

Issue: April 2009

Keywords (click to search): employment contract law labour employment

The government will not revise China’s Employment Contract Law (ECL), despite rising cases of bankruptcy due to increased costs for companies. This is likely to lead to companies giving workers more short-term jobs.

Xin Chunying, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), was recently quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying that the employment contract law had nothing to do...

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