• posted: Jul. 22, 2020
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law,  Business In China

Information flows fast in the digital age. What people read about Chinese companies on the web and social media affects both the company’s reputation and its revenues. As such, it Read More

• posted: Jul. 17, 2020
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law,  Business In China,  COVID-19

The world is changing more quickly than any of us ever expected it to. Like enterprises around the world, modern Chinese companies must provide for their customers and their employees Read More

• posted: Mar. 02, 2020
• Peter Pang
• Home,  Labor and Employment Law,  Legal Updates,  COVID-19

Towards the end of 2019, local authorities in Wuhan, Hubei province, identified a cluster of cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)-infected pneumonia. Instantaneously declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern Read More

• posted: Sep. 30, 2019
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law

The term “Mainland China” (with an upper-case “M”) is a political rather than geographic designation. It refers to the territory of China minus Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau, which issue Read More

• posted: Sep. 15, 2019
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law

If your company is involved in an industry where it is likely that at least one of your employees is likely to invent something in the course of his duties Read More

• posted: Aug. 30, 2019
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law

Contrary to the popular conception, a FESCO (Foreign Enterprise Service Corporation) is not a single, monolithic entity. Rather, it is a catch-all term for many different Chinese companies that provide Read More

• posted: Aug. 15, 2019
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law

The labor law of the PRC is based primarily on the PRC Labor Law and the PRC Labor Contract Law. Overall, Chinese labor law is quite employee-friendly, especially compared to Read More

• posted: Jul. 30, 2019
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law

Conducting a background check on a job applicant is a routine activity all over the world, although far too many employers ignore this critical step in the hiring process. The Read More

• posted: Jul. 15, 2019
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law

As recently as the 1990s when investment in China was used primarily as a means of exploiting cheap labor resources, skepticism abounded as to whether China itself would ever become Read More

• posted: Jul. 15, 2017
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law

Many countries have governmental occupational health and safety standards to protect workers on the job.  In the United States, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the United Read More