As a practicing PRC attorney, I have seen a lot of changes since
Jan. 1, 2008 when the PRC Labor Contract Law became effective.
There are more labor disputes nowadays than 5 or 10 years ago. More
labor disputes actually mean more labor arbitrations filed before
labor arbitration committee and more litigation filed before
People's Court for all the procedures including first and
second instance and even enforcement. There are more and more
employees hiring attorneys presenting them in all of the
above-mentioned legal procedures. This is kind of new in mainland
China. Another thing that I see is all the disputes actually
happened not only just in SOEs or private Chinese companies, but
also in foreign-invested companies including WFOEs and Joint
Ventures, and the attitudes of Chinese employees have changed
dramatically from feeling shame to file lawsuit against the company
that one may have worked for more than 10 years to the kind of
attitude that it is so acceptable and
