Recruitment

Methods of Recruitment

As China boasts numerous talents of all walks of life, the enterprises may recruit employees in many ways, mainly including:

• • Entrust job intermediary or public employment service for the recruitment;
• • Publish job advertisement through such mass media as newspaper and talent recruitment website;
• • Participate in various talents exchange fairs, such as industry recruitment, talents exchange fair for foreign enterprises and career fair in university campus;
• • Publish recruitment information through enterprise website.

Employment Contract

An employment labour contract must be signed for recruitment in China, and the rights and obligations of both parties shall be stipulated therein. The enterprise shall sign an employment contract with the employee within one month from the start of his/her employment. Labour contracts are classified into employment contracts with a fixed period, labour contracts without a fixed period and employment contracts with a period to complete the prescribed work. If an employee has worked for 10 consecutive years in the enterprise or signed two employment contracts with a fixed period with the enterprise in succession, the enterprise shall sign an employment contract without a fixed period with such employee.

The agreed probation period varies according to the term of a contract. Generally speaking, if the contract term is one year, the probation period shall be one month; if the contract term is two years, the probation period shall be two months; and if the contract term is three years or more or without a fixed period, the probation period shall not exceed six months.

An employee shall send a 30-day prior notice to the enterprise in writing if he/she is desirous of resigning during the contract period.

Working Hour

The current working hour standard in China is not more than 8 hours a day and the average working hours in a week are not more than 40 hours. Other working hour standard shall be applied for in special cases, for instance irregular working hour or collective calculation of working hour.

Working Visa

Before the employment, work permit for the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau expatriates shall be applied for the person from the abovementioned regions, and an extension may be applied for within 30 days before the expiry of the work permit.

Alien Employment Permit and Alien Residence Permit shall be applied for the employment of foreigners, and an extension may be applied to the public security department within 30 days before the expiry of the residence permit. The accompanying family members of the employee (spouse, parents or offspring under the age of 18) may apply for residence permit of the same period with such employee.

Social Security Insurance and Housing Provident Fund

For the purpose of protecting the social welfare of the employees, the enterprises established in China shall contribute a certain amount of social security insurance and housing provident fund every month for their employees.

Social security insurance includes pension insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance and work-related injury insurance, among which pension insurance, medical insurance and unemployment insurance shall be paid by the enterprise and the employee at different proportion respectively, whereas maternity insurance and work-related injury insurance shall be borne by the enterprise solely. Housing provident fund shall be paid by the enterprise and the employee at the same proportion.

Social security insurance shall be paid on the basis of the salary of the current month of the employee, but the proportion for the enterprise and the individual varies in different cities, and the payment base and proportion adjusts every year according to the local salary level.

Payment Proportion of Social Security Insurance and Housing Provident Funds for Some Major Cities in 2016