Employment 2025

CHINA Trends and Developments

Trends and Developments Contributed by: Linda Liang, Ai Luo, Faluan Pan and Chutian Wang King & Wood Mallesons

King & Wood Mallesons is a leading law firm with exceptional legal expertise and depth of knowledge. The firm provides comprehensive one-stop legal so - lutions to clients in China as well as internationally. The labour and employment department has seven partners and more than 20 attorneys and assistants based in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Suzhou and Haikou, enabling them to quickly and effectively resolve labour law issues across Main - land China. The firm has provided legal services to

more than 300 Fortune 500 companies, multinational companies, large state-owned enterprises and well- known domestic enterprises. Its extensive experi - ence in handling both adversarial and non-adversar - ial matters, and its direct participation in legislation, facilitate a deep and accurate understanding of the complicated and rapid changes in PRC labour and employment laws and policies, as well as the latest HR, management and employment issues.

Authors

Linda Liang is a partner at King & Wood Mallesons and has more than 20 years’ experience in employment and labour law practice. She has handled various employment and labour disputes, and advised

Faluan Pan is an of counsel at King & Wood Mallesons. He provides long- term legal services to clients in compliance reviews of labour relations and human resources management systems, reviewing and

extensively on employment and labour law matters. Ms Liang is a board member of the China Labour Law Society, a committee member of the Labour and Social Security Law Committee of the All China Lawyers Association and a vice chair of the Employment and Immigration Law Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.

revising employment contracts and corporate internal regulations, and participating in drafting and implementing employee placement plans. Mr Pan also represents enterprises in various types of labour dispute arbitration and litigation cases.

Chutian Wang is an associate at King & Wood Mallesons and specialises in labour and employment law. She has assisted partners in handling labour dispute cases for many well-known companies and participated in various

Ai Luo is a partner at King & Wood Mallesons who has 24 years of experience in legal practice. She provides legal services in labour law and human resources management to numerous multinational corporations,

non-litigation affairs, mainly including drafting and reviewing labour contracts, employee handbooks and other human resources system documents; combing human resources systems; and providing legal services for enterprise layoffs and the dismissal of employees and executives.

state-owned enterprises and listed companies. Currently, Ms Luo serves as a council member of the Hainan Lawyers Association and an Adjunct Mentor for the Master of Laws (Foreign-related Lawyers) joint cultivation program at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law.

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