Employers with operations in China could face steep financial penalties and even criminal charges for violating new rules for transferring employee or customer data out of the country. Companies that meet certain... Read more »
?Recent raids in China are raising concerns among consultancies, as China steps up its security measures. Capvision Partners, a consulting firm headquartered in New York City and Shanghai, is the most recent... Read more »
?Terminating China-based employees is difficult. Article 40(2) of China’s Labor Contract Law permits an employer to unilaterally terminate an employee, with severance, if the employee is incompetent and remains incompetent after training or... Read more »
?Another U.S.-headquartered firm, Bain & Co., was raided by Chinese authorities—this time in Shanghai—where police took away computers and phones and questioned staff. No employees were detained. The raid happened after Mintz... Read more »
?As of March 6, all medical certificates—more commonly known as sick leave certificates or sick notes—issued by Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) have a digital signature instead of a traditional manual signature... Read more »
?The recent raid of the Beijing office of Mintz Group, a U.S. corporate investigations firm, and detention of its five Chinese employees has raised concerns among those conducting due diligence in China.... Read more »
?The rapid spread of COVID-19 throughout China has resulted in hospitals full of patients, fears of a new coronavirus variant and new travel restrictions around the globe. Nonetheless, China is lifting its... Read more »
?On June 9, the Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the Employment and Retirement Schemes Legislation (Offsetting Arrangement) (Amendment) Bill 2022 (“Bill”). The long-awaited abolition of employers’ statutory right to offset long service... Read more »
Elements of the government response to key modern slavery inquiry are ‘ludicrous’ and ‘lacking in credulity’, say MPs. The post MPs critical of government rejection of Uyghur proposals appeared first on Personnel... Read more »
Higher proportion of Chinese IT experts given approval for UK visas than any other nation, despite government concerns over ‘hostile state actors’. The post Chinese IT specialists top visa approval ratios appeared... Read more »
