2008 has been a remarkable year for labour rights legislation in China. Beijing has already implemented three major new labour laws...Yet at the same time, enterprises and employers across the country are still effectively operating outside the law...The reason for this apparent paradox is simple: local governments across China lack the ability and or the inclination to enforce the law, especially when strict enforcement of national labour legislation and regulations would put them at an economic disadvantage...However, even if the local government is unwilling to enforce the law, workers can still seek redress through China’s well-established institutions of mediation and arbitration as well as the court system...China Labour Bulletin (CLB) has been actively involved in labour rights litigation since 2003, and now runs one of the largest such programs in mainland China...Despite the many obstacles that still exist, labour rights litigation is without doubt one of the most effective ways of protecting workers’ rights, especially individual workers’ rights, in China today. [Also refers toAngang, Changshuo Technology (part of Asus), Pulihua (part of Foxconn)]