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Article

12 Feb 2008

Author:
Xinhuanet [China]

Chinese attorneys expect business boom from new labor law

The labor contract law improves protection of employees' rights and imposes more liabilities on employers, [a Beijing lawyer] said, "I believe that more employees are willing to solve their problems through the legal system as they will find more support from the law."...Gao Feng [said m]any employees are confronted by their boss about relocation but the labor contract law did not give a satisfactory solution...The Guangdong-based Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China's telecom network equipment giant, hit the headline for its suspicious "voluntary resignation" scheme..."As a lawyer, I think the law is set to protect some very fundamental rights of the employees..." [Gao said.]