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How to Respond Employees’ Compensation Claim for Office Relocation in China？

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By You Yunting

A subscriber of our website asked that what the company shall reply when the employee hand in his/her resignation for the inconvenience occurred from relocation of the office and as for the employee’s claim of compensation.

We reply as follows: Obviously, it could come to the employee’s consideration that the relocation of the office is the statutory situation of “A major change in the objective circumstances relied upon at the time of conclusion of the employment contract renders it unperformable”, and it is also resulted by the employer, and for this reason, they would claim an extra one month salary and compensation.

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The Untimely Chinese Labor Contract Law

     ——Layoff Difficulty of Nokia, Groupon and Ku6, the influence of untimely and inappropriate regulations in Labor Contract law

Highlights: The untimely and inappropriate regulations on layoffs in Labor Contract Law fails to meet the current development demands of the company, the legal obstacle deteriorates competitiveness of the company and limits company’s desires on employment.

Recently, four Chinese companies met difficulties due to cuts were brought to our attention.  Gaopeng.com, a Chinese deal-of-the-day website jointly invested by Groupon.com and Tencent (SEHK 700), started mass layoff, which raised a concerns and protestations from its employees; someone even chose the suit for the dissatisfaction on the compensation. Shortly after that, Nokia (NASDAQ: NOK) and Nokia Siemens Networks were also doubted due to  its illegal layoff procedure. And what’s more, the earlier layoff of KU6 (NASDAQ:KUTV) led to physical aggression and outbursts.

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