Legal

  • Guangdong is the first province to have issued a guiding opinion on the labour laws. The opinion attempts to clarify some of the ambiguities in the PRC Employment Contract Law, which took effect in January this year. But the issuance of the rules has caused considerable controversy, with some arguing the Guangdong authorities do not have the right to issue guiding opinions and that some its contents are, as a result, against the national law.

    September 10, 2008
  • Canadian Solar has completed its follow-on offering of 3,500,000 common shares at a public offering price of US$34 per share. Deutsche Bank Securities…

    September 10, 2008
  • ReneSola has completed its follow-on offering of 10,350,000 American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Each share representing two ordinary…

    September 10, 2008
  • Sexual harassment in the workplace in the PRC is more common than some would think. Women working in the PRC gained significant additional rights in 2005 when the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress amended (the 2005 Amendment) the Law for the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests of the PRC1 (Women's Protection Law) to prohibit sexual harassment against women for the first time Lesli Ligorner from Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker discusses how the 2005 Amendment has failed to protect women from sexual harassment.

    September 10, 2008