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Work and injuries

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Employment records, leaving a job, workplace injuries and support after setbacks under mainland Chinese rules.

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Save pay stubs, attendance records, employment contracts, social insurance documents, and chat logs before leaving your job

Employers carry the evidentiary burden in certain dismissal and wage-reduction disputes, but workers initially need to show overtime occurred. Employe…

Cost
No expense required. It takes about half an hour to save all these documents. The tricky p…
Benefit
Labor-dispute claimants generally must support their claims. An employer must produce evid…

Overtime pay is calculated at three rates: 1.5×, 2×, and 3× the regular wage; failure to pay warrants a complaint to labor authorities, and non‑payment after the deadline incurs an additional penalty of 50%–100% of the owed amount.

For ordinary workdays, overtime must be paid at 1.5× the wage. On rest days, if no compensatory time off is granted, the rate rises to 2×. On statutor…

Cost
There is no direct cost. Simply keep copies of time‑card records, shift schedules, and ove…
Benefit
Statutory limits cap normal working hours at 8 per day and 44 per week. Regular overtime s…