In The Chinese Government is Accessing YOUR Network Through the Backdoor and There Still is NO Place to Hide, I explained how Chinese banks are requiring their account holders to install malware which allows the Chinese government to see All account holder data — financial or otherwise. We received the usual set of comments we get
Preguntas frecuentes sobre la legislación laboral en China
How to Avoid International Business/Legal Problems. Preparation is everything and we explain how to prepare.
China Joint Ventures With China’s economy in a downturn and so much uncertainty regarding the future of US/China and EU/China relations, our China business lawyers have lately been seeing an uptick in companies looking to do China joint ventures “to share in the risk.” When done right, China joint ventures do share risk. But when
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, China has released and updated countless national and local employment laws to deal with rapidly changing circumstances. In the United States and the EU, best practices usually dictate that you update your company’s employee handbook at least once a year and even more often if there have been
Many Chinese factories are hurting right now. Badly. This should come as no surprise. First they went through months of closures due to the coronavirus, and just when they opened they faced massively reduced demand. Chinese factories are closing left and right and many of those that are open are facing reduced demand and falling
La semana pasada, Fred Rocafort (uno de nuestros abogados especializados en comercio internacional), Dan Pak (vicepresidente de Adquisiciones de una gran cadena hospitalaria de la costa este) y yo impartimos un seminario web de más de 90 minutos sobre cómo gestionar las compras de EPI procedentes de China. A raíz de los comentarios que hemos recibido y dado que varias empresas de seminarios web nos han pedido
Allá por los tiempos anteriores al coronavirus —el 30 de octubre de 2019—, en el artículo «No dejes que la fuerza mayor se convierta en una fuerza dominante en tu contrato con China», publicamos una entrada en la que advertíamos sobre las cláusulas de fuerza mayor en los contratos con empresas chinas. Esa entrada comenzaba con la siguiente advertencia a modo de broma: «Saca y echa un vistazo a tu contrato con tu socio chino...»
The issue of forced labor in China has been in the news recently. In part, this is due to the connection between this issue and the larger human rights crisis in Xinjiang. However, forced labor is hardly a problem confined to Xinjiang, as a recent scandal involving British supermarket chain Tesco shows. Last month, Tesco
Foreign companies doing business in China fairly often ask our China employment lawyers whether they can legally hire someone who has passed the legal retirement age. The short answer is that doing so is legal, but somewhat complicated. Consider this hypothetical. Employer employs Employee (male) for several years. Employee turns 60, the statutory retirement age,
