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China and Hong Kong: Employment Law Review 2020 – Hong Kong and Mainland China

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Our Hong Kong and China employment teams covered important changes and trends in employment law over the past year.

Hong Kong

Topics under the employment legislative update include maternity leave, updates to anti-discrimination legislation, statutory holidays, MPF setoff and immigration updates.

The team also shared some case studies and discussed the legal implications of stranded employees, one of the most common issues employers faced during this pandemic year.

China

Our China team shared updates on China’s new civil code, new evidence rules, Supreme People’s Court’s guiding opinion on trade secret cases and local developments.

This was followed by a deep dive into flexible work arrangements and a look into the trends in alternative hiring arrangements in PRC.

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Ms. Lu routinely leads massive employment projects, such as mass layoffs, restructuring, investigations, and employee unrests/strikes, involving challenging and complex considerations. She also specializes in strategic employment counselling and developing creative employment solutions for multinational corporations in their global transactions and day-to-day operations. She regularly advises clients on all aspects of human resources management, including wages and hours, bonus and benefit plans, handbooks/code of conduct, hiring and terminations, compliance and investigation, data privacy, global assignments, sexual harassment, union issues, strikes and unrests, and labor disputes, etc. Ms. Lu was named the lead lawyer in the employment area by major publications for consecutive years.
She has experience in complex multidistrict litigation in state and federal courts in the United States.
Given Ms. Lu’s combined experience in transactions and litigation and in China and the United States, she can quickly analyze legal and practical strategies in complex cross-border matters and harmonize cultural differences.

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Vivien Yu is a registered foreign lawyer in the Firm’s Employment practice group based in Hong Kong. She has over 11 years of immigration law experience in Hong Kong and overseas. Vivien is a qualified solicitor and a Registered Migration Agent in Australia. She has been with Baker McKenzie for over 8 years, leading the Greater China Immigration practice since 2013. Vivien is a registered Migration Agent with the Australian Government's Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority.

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Ms. Wong is a Special Counsel in the Employment team in Baker McKenzie Hong Kong. She is known for her knowledge of employment and labour related laws. She has advised numerous clients across multiple industries such as consumer goods & retail, information technology, pharmaceutical, insurance, and banking and finance, on various employment issues.

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Ken Ng is a Senior Associate in Baker McKenzie, Hong Kong office.

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Venus Man is an Associate in Baker McKenzie's Hong Kong office.

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Katherine Tong is an Associate in Baker McKenzie Hong Kong office.

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Amy Huai Chih Ling is a registered foreign lawyer and a partner in Baker Mckenzie's Hongkong office. With extensive experience in tax matters, her practice focuses on multinational companies on a range of issues relating to PRC tax and legal implications of investments in China, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, post acquisition integration, licensing, retail structures, supply chain structures and individual income taxation matters.

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Carrie Lui is a special counsel in Baker McKenzie Hong Kong office. She is experienced across a broad range of sectors and industries. Carrie's tax knowledge is complimented by her experience working as a tax lawyer in New Zealand prior to joining Baker McKenzie.
Carrie is also a regular speaker and panelists in major client conferences of the Firm.

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