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As of 1 September 2014, the new judicial opinion of the China's Supreme People’s Court concerning work-related injuries (the "Opinion") came into force

Towards the end of 2019, local authorities in Wuhan, Hubei province, identified a cluster of cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)-infected pneumonia.

On December 1, 2014, the amendments to the Workplace Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China came into effect.

In the last edition of this update, we featured the Hong Kong Government's public consultation on a nutrition labelling scheme for pre-packaged foods. Since that article a disturbing related issue has emerged in Hong Kong and mainland China. Most people are familiar with the trade in counterfeit items all over the world such as watches, computer games, DVDs and clothing. Whilst this is a major concern for multi-national and local companies who wish to protect their intellectual property righ

Multinational employers operating in China have been waiting since September 2023 for the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to finalize proposed revisions to its complex...

The Rules on Certain Issues Concerning Administrative Cases Involving Work-related Injury Insurance issued by the Supreme People’s Court of China came into effect on September 1, 2014.

As the number of novel coronavirus cases exceeds the 40,000 mark,employers the world over are putting in place plans to prepare for the risk of an employee becoming exposed to or ill with the virus.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many new regulations and policies have been introduced at both national and local levels in Mainland China...

Several production accidents have recently returned public attention to the issue of production safety.

China's new Interim Measures on the Protection of Basic Rights and Interests of Over-Age Workers, effective July 2026, establish mandatory written agreements, minimum wage protections, and work-related injury insurance for workers beyond statutory retirement age.

On 29 December 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress issued a major update to the current PRC Company Law. The revised PRC Company Law will enter into effect on 1 July 2024.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) corporate compliance standards have become a mainstream non-finance branch of business evaluation, advocated and promoted worldwide by the UN. ESG...

On 30 November 2016, the Supreme People's Court published the "Minutes of the Eighth National Working Conference on the Courts' Trial of Civil and Commercial Cases (Civil Part)" (the "Minutes").

Why such order becomes hot topic in Chinese courts, and why should we care about relevant topics?

Under class B, employees diagnosed with COVID-19 should be managed under the company policy for sick leave.

On January 18, 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on its official website that the national per capita disposable income of urban residents for the whole year of 2020 was RMB 43,834.

Many countries have governmental occupational health and safety standards to protect workers on the job.