A new cycle of economic reforms is being undertaken against a backdrop of a slowdown in the country’s economy and emerging criticism over high levels of protection being offered to workers. Eights years after its implementation, the law on the employment contract is again subject to debate and may yet be amended.
During a press conference organized for the National People Congress annual session held in March 2016, China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei declared that the law on employment contracts (for more on the regulation c.f. article No. 080887 and for an English translation of the 2007 text) had led to more rigid employment relationships and increased labor costs. Seeing it as disadvantaging business, the Minister proposed amending the law. Even if he wasn’t very clear on his exact intentions, his wor
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