The Secret To Keeping Your China Employees Is No Secret
The Chief Asia Inspector blog is a good source for common sense views on how to do business in China and today’s post is the epitome of that. It is entitled “(Skilled) Workers’ Paradise,” and it sets...
View ArticleRaises And Promotions Come First In China — Get Used To It
We often write about how Western companies in China make the mistake of failing to recognize that their Chinese employees are little different from their employees back home. The typical Chinese...
View ArticleChina’s Proposed Labor Laws: Foreign Policy With No Focus
A quasi-interesting discussion going on over at the Foreign Policy in Focus site regarding China’s proposed labor laws, entitled, “Debate on Labor in China.” The discussion is between the US-China...
View ArticleChina HR Mistakes To Avoid
Interesting Forbes Magazine article on avoiding HR mistakes in China. The article is entitled, “How Multinationals Err In China” and it focuses on the following three common human resource (HR)...
View ArticleChina’s New Labor Law — It’s A Huge Deal. Huge I Tell You.
Everything is going to change on January 1, 2008, for employers in China. Well almost everything. That is the day China’s new labor law goes into effect and if you have employees in China (especially...
View ArticleChina’s New Labor Law As Plague On All Employers’ Houses.
As regular CLB readers know, we have been repeatedly preaching (right word) for some time about the massive impacts to expect from China’s new labor contract law, which went into effect just this year....
View ArticleChina’s Labor Laws: The Cultural Disconnect Goes Both Ways.
Last week, I attended co-blogger Steve Dickinson’s lecture on China labor law. Steve’s lecture was part of a truly superb Doing Business in China seminar put on by Global Nav. The thrust of Steve’s...
View ArticleWanna Get Sued In China? Your Ex-Employees Can Help.
China Daily (h/t to my friend Brian over at China Challenges) just came out with an article headlined, “Cases soar as workers seek redress.” The article gives facts behind what many of us already know:...
View ArticleWhy Hiring China-Based “Employees” Without A Company Is Bad Business
Today I had a long conversation with a couple out of town lawyers who had called me regarding whether their client should shut down its China Representative Office and form a WFOE. My advice was that...
View ArticleChina Employment Cases. Your One Bad Example Does Not A Legal System Make.
Got a really interesting, somewhat angry email this morning, that (after being stripped of any identifiers) read as follows: Hi, I’m an American citizen that just got fired in China, and I have to say,...
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