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Shadow (“S”) is an electronic components manufacturer. In order to improve efficiency, S issues “Rules of KPI”, a hundred-mark system is applied, in which 40 points for fulfillment of task, 40 points for attitude, 20 points for attendance, and points for attitude is scored by the direct supervisor. An employee shall be deemed as disqualified if he/she gets below 60…

“Regulations on the Administration of Recall of Defective Auto Products” (“Regulations”) was promulgated on Oct. 10, 2012, and will come into force on Jan. 1, 2013. Being the new regulation which has a higher legislation hierarchy than “Provisions on the Administration of Recall of Defective Auto Products” (“Provisions”), it has stipulated new articles, such as the highest penalty is 10%…

The company “Shadow” (“S”) thought that Ms. A had disclosed the secret of S and dismissed her. After the accomplishment of arbitration on labor issues, and litigation, since S could not provide enough evidence, S was ordered to resume the labor relation. A was the HR director of S, but after the litigation, S requires her to work at a…

In the procedure of the import and export declaration, to identify the commodity classification (“CC”, viz choosing the Tariff Code) is a skill requires high technicality and professionalism. In practice, different enterprises, even different administrations of customs (“AC”) may identify different CCs for even same goods. Where an enterprise declares a Tariff Code which is different from the identification of…

The market was in a downturn, so “Shadow” (“S”) decided to cease a line. On Feb. 5, S notified its 20 hourly employees of the news that the line was ceased, and all the employees should still register at company every day. Mar. 1 was the payday, S said that the employees had only worked for 5 days in Feb.,…

In the recent years, the commercial bribery (“CB”) events related to foreign invested companies happened frequently; some internationally renowned companies such as Lucent, Siemens and etc. are involved in CB events, which bring the economic loss to those companies and bad effects to their images and reputation. Hence, it is an inevitable topic for foreign invested companies to prevent CB,…

“Shadow” (“S”) is a mid-sized company, in the past few years, with the improvement of R&D, the added value of S’s products has been increasing and S has made a sizeable profit. However, the KPI system exists in name only, the employees just complete the same tasks as the past, but they can obtain a salary increase at around 5%…

The former employer’s customers are solicited by the employee by utilizing its Customer List ( “CL”) after he/she has made a job-hopping, which is a common occurrence. Some of those former employers have tried to sue the employees for Infringement of Business Secret by the evidence of CL, but the courts seldom support their claims. Article 10 of “Anti-Unfair Competition…

A and B know that the famous company ”Shadow” values its reputation very much, so they fabricate dozens of accounts on the BBS of a foreign trade website, “disclose” the negative news about Shadow,and blackmail Shadow into paying “Deleting Fee” through email and phone. The amount of “Deleting Fee” varies from 100Yuanto more than 10,000Yuan.At the beginning, Shadow is afraid…