No revision of employment law expected

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 with the financial crisis and that China's labour relations are stable and “can weather through the test of time.”