China Employment Lawyer

Understanding employment law in China is not just about reading one national law. It requires knowledge of the Labor Law, the Labor Contract Law, the Social Insurance Law, the Labor Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Law, the Trade Union Law, the Personal Information Protection Law, and many local rules. Judicial interpretations and arbitration practice also matter. Rules in Beijing may differ from those in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, or Chengdu. Local rules on social insurance, housing funds, minimum wage, overtime, and dispute resolution can vary a lot.

Our China employment lawyer team offers full employment and labor law services. We help global companies, foreign-owned companies, domestic firms, startups, private equity-backed companies, representative offices, and individual. We support the whole employment cycle. This includes market entry, hiring, daily HR compliance, pay and incentives, restructuring, ending employment, and labor disputes. We do more than solve problems after they happen. We help prevent them with good planning, clear documents, practical training, and smart advice.

Employment issues are not only legal. They also involve business strategy, money, employee morale, public relations, data privacy, immigration, tax, and corporate governance. So we take a broad and practical approach. We work with HR leaders, in-house legal teams, executives, and finance departments. Together, we design solutions that are legally sound, practical to use, and aligned with business goals.

1. Employment Compliance Audits and Risk Assessment

We review your HR practices to find gaps and risks. This includes employment contracts, employee handbooks, internal policies, disciplinary steps, working hours, leave systems, pay structures, social insurance, housing fund contributions, dispatch arrangements, and termination documents. We check national law and local rules. Then we give you a practical plan with clear priorities.

2. Employment Contracts, Handbooks, and Policies

We draft, review, and localize employment contracts, offer letters, confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, intellectual property assignment agreements, employee handbooks, codes of conduct, anti-harassment policies, leave policies, overtime policies, expense rules, and remote work policies. We help you align global policies with Chinese law. At the same time, we help you keep your global standards and culture.

3. Hiring, Onboarding, and Foreign Employment

We advise on recruitment and onboarding. This includes background checks, medical exams, probation periods, fixed-term and open-ended contracts, labor dispatch, secondment, and independent contractor arrangements. For foreign employees, we help with work permits, Z visas, residence permits, dependent visas, and foreign expert and immigration rules. We also advise on expatriate packages, tax equalization, social insurance, and secondment structures.

4. Compensation, Benefits, and Incentives

We advise on minimum wage, overtime pay, bonuses, commissions, allowances, annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, work injury, social insurance, and housing fund contributions. We also help design and run equity incentive plans, employee stock ownership plans, phantom equity, profit-sharing plans, and deferred compensation. We review clawback rules, vesting schedules, and how incentives are treated when employment ends.

5. Ending Employment, Restructuring, and Workforce Reduction

Ending employment is one of the highest-risk areas in China. We advise on mutual separation agreements, termination for cause, termination during probation, expiration of fixed-term contracts, economic layoffs, mass layoffs, plant closures, relocations, and employee transfers. We help with severance calculations, collective consultation, union communication, government reporting, and negotiation plans. We also help manage sensitive exits involving senior executives, sales teams, and employee representatives.

6. Labor Dispute Resolution

7. Internal Investigations and Employee Discipline

We conduct and advise on internal investigations. These may involve employee misconduct, fraud, corruption, theft, conflicts of interest, harassment, discrimination, and whistleblower complaints. We help design investigation rules, conduct interviews, preserve evidence, prepare reports, and apply discipline. We also advise on termination and criminal referral risks.

8. Cross-Border Employment, Data Privacy, and Mobility

We advise on cross-border employment structures, remote work, global mobility, international secondment, dual employment, permanent establishment risk, tax and social security coordination, and data privacy. We help you follow the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) when you handle employee data, run background checks, monitor employees, or send HR data outside China.

9. Training, Hotline, and Retainer Services

We provide custom training for HR professionals, managers, and executives. Topics include China employment law, termination risk, investigation skills, anti-harassment, and compliance. We also offer retainer and hotline services. This helps you get timely advice on daily HR issues, document reviews, and risk assessments.