Category: Employment & Education

A proposed Labor Contract Law will not be approved at the annual National People's Congress in March, although it will likely be passed this year, the South China Morning Post reported. A law professor at Shanghai Normal University, Liu Cheng, who helped draft the law, said it will be reviewed in April or June, adding […]

China's migrant workers have left 20 million children behind with grandparents. As many as 22% of parents from rural areas like Anhui province have traveled to booming urban centers in search of work, according to a report by the China National Children and Teenagers' Working Committee, state media reported. In 2005, China had more than […]

The central government wants multinational companies in Guangdong to set up labor unions by year's end, the South China Morning Post reported. Eighty percent of companies with foreign investment would be unionized, contributing to the more than 1 million new members expected to join Guangdong's official union organization this year. Some see the move as […]

Wal-Mart employees in mainland China have established a Communist Party branch at the company's mainland headquarters in Shenzhen, the Wall Street Journal reported. The branch was inaugurated Friday and follows the organization of similar bodies in five Wal-Mart stores since August, spokesman Jonathan Dong told the newspaper. In recent years, the party has worked to […]