Chima / 7 interesting facts about employment law

1. Employers are obliged to employ a quota of people with disabilities, in appropriate types of job
2. The representative office in China of a foreign company cannot directly recruit a Chinese citizen
3. Statutory annual leave entitlement for employees is very low
4. In many cases, legislation at provincial, regional or municipal level gives women a right to additional maternity leave if they have their first child after the age of 24 this forms part of public policy to encourage later childbirth and small families
5. Fixed-term contracts are the most common form of employment relationship in China
6. The transfer of a business or part of a business does not automatically entail the transfer of the employees concerned from the transferor to the transferee
7. Legislative provisions on equal opportunities and discrimination in employment are rather general, lacking in detail and hard to enforce.

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