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  • 2025-05-07
  • 3 minutes Read
The “Measures for the Implementation of Work Safety Liability Insurance” has been implemented since March 29, 2025.

In 2017, the former State Administration of Work Safety, the former China Insurance Regulatory Commission, and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the “Measures for the Implementation of Work Safety Liability Insurance” (An Jian Zong Ban [2017] No.140), establishing the work safety liability insurance system (hereinafter referred to as the “System”). The “Work Safety Law” revised in 2021 put forward new requirements for the System, clearly stating that “production and business operation entities in high-risk industries and fields specified by the state shall purchase work safety liability insurance.” Regarding those new reauiremtns, the Ministry of Emergency Management, jointly with six…

  • 2025-05-07
  • 4 minutes Read
Whether an enterprise standard shall be filed?

In a product quality dispute case, the contract involved in the case stipulated that the quality standard of the subject matter should adopt the enterprise standard of the seller. However, the seller did not provide its enterprise standard or the corresponding instruction manual to the buyer. Moreover, the nameplate of the equipment did not match the actual equipment, so the quality standard indicated on the nameplate could not be used as the evaluation standard for the quality of the equipment either. In the end, the court held that the seller could not prove that the equipment complied with the enterprise…

  • 2025-05-07
  • 3 minutes Read
Whether an employer is entitled to forbid employees from getting a tattoo?

A factory owner in Dongguan refused to hire a person with a tattoo, because she believed that a person with a tattoo might affect the overall atmosphere of the factory, as having a tattoo gives people the first impression that such person is either involved in underworld activities or disobedient. The factory owner’s words sparked a heated debate. Some people believe that the company has the right to decide its hiring standards based on its own judgment criteria, while others believe that tattoos, hairstyles, clothing, etc. fall within the scope of personal image management, and the company has no right…