China: the modalities of the new obligation to subject foreign workers to the Chinese social security still need to be clarified

2010 Social Insurance Act, enforced on July 1st, provides, for the first time ever, for the mandatory subjection of foreign workers to the Chinese social security, when they used to be automatically excluded before. To clarify the modalities, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security opened, in June 2011, a public consultation on a draft implementing regulation which leaves many questions unanswered. By Aiqing Zheng, Associate Professor at the Renmin University of China Law School.