10.19
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenzhen
On October 19, a netizen posted a notice: during the APEC meeting from November 16 to 20, Shenzhen citywide will not have a unified holiday or adjusted rest day; enterprises may independently arrange working from home, staggered commuting hours, flexible working hours, and paid annual leave, and it was emphasized that flexible arrangements must not be used to unlawfully extend working hours, evade overtime pay, or lower wage standards.
10.15
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
The Chinese Communist Party issued the Measures for Protecting the Rights and Interests of Workers in New Forms of Employment, proposing to ban platforms from inducing workers to register as individual businesses and to ban multi-layer subcontracting to evade employment responsibilities.
10.08
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Shenzhen
Three departments in Guangdong issued a notice dated September 17 and published on the tax bureau's official website on October 8, retroactively unifying the lower limit of the pension contribution base for enterprise employees to 5,510 yuan as of January and 5,521 yuan from July onward. Shenzhen's original lower limit of 4,775 yuan was raised by about 15.6%, and employees and employers who had previously contributed at the lower base must pay the difference.
2026.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·China
The Chinese Communist Party has announced that starting in October it will crack down hard, using big data to recover social security contributions from entities and individuals who failed to pay them in accordance with the law, with violators facing fines.
09.11
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·Hefei
On September 9, Hefei, Anhui, introduced new safety supervision regulations for food delivery, requiring riders to go offline for 20 minutes after delivering for more than four consecutive hours, and implementing joint punishment for traffic violations. Riders generally disagree with this, pointing out that low delivery fees are the primary cause of overtime work and violations.
09.09
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·Hefei
Under new Hefei food-delivery rules taking effect on September 9, 2026, delivery riders who accumulate three violations such as running red lights within one month must undergo mandatory training and have their orders capped for three days; five violations will result in a dispatch suspension of at least seven days; those who cause accidents or repeatedly offend will be dismissed and placed on an industry blacklist.
09.09
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·Hefei
The new Hefei food delivery rules taking effect on September 9, 2026 also require delivery vehicles to comply with national standards and strictly prohibit modifications; platforms must establish health records for riders, those suffering from infectious diseases should be suspended from duty, and riders must sign a "Traffic Safety Commitment" and pass an assessment before starting work.
2026.09
·Official claim
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
As of the end of September, the enrollment scale of China's basic pension, unemployment, and work injury insurance ranks first in the world, and the authorities have proposed mobilizing uninsured people to enroll through measures such as policy optimization and using data to identify people.
08.05
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 3
·Zhengzhou, Henan
On August 5, 2026, multiple departments in Henan Province jointly issued a notice promoting staggered paid leave for employees, requiring leading cadres to take the lead in taking leave, and combining holiday-merging with cultural and tourism discounts to activate consumption potential, while strictly investigating employers that refuse to arrange leave.
07.01
·Official claim
·Importance III
·Sources 3
·China
Occupational injury protection will be fully implemented across 31 provinces nationwide starting July 1, 2026, covering new employment form practitioners such as food delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers.
2026.05
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
In May 2026, domestic media reports praised a company known as the “warmest sugar factory” for producing for five consecutive months with only two days off factory-wide; its head thanked employees for their dedication, prompting public questioning over suspected serious violations of the labor law.
2025.10.22
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·China
Data released by the Supreme People's Court shows that courts nationwide accepted 648,000 first-instance labor dispute cases in the first three quarters of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 37.5%.
2024.11
·Reported
·Importance I
·Sources 1
·Fuzhou
The Fuzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau issued a document reminding that the “mini-week” of “one week with no days off, one week with a single day off, two days off per month” is suspected of being illegal, pointing out that under the standard working hours system, working hours per week shall not exceed 40 hours, with at least one day of rest per week.