Employment and Labor

Dacheng is committed to safeguarding client interests to the utmost as a large comprehensive law firm. At Dacheng, we provide timely, professional, comprehensive, and pragmatic legal and business solutions to both domestic and international clients. We deeply understand the importance of labor-related legal matters to our clients, thus placing great emphasis on providing exceptional legal services in the employment and labor practice area. Our specialized team in this area comprises employment and labor management experts within our global legal service network.

 

We are dedicated to building a distinctive, leading Chinese team specializing in employment and labor management. Our goal is to fully integrate our global network platform while continuously exploring and embracing innovation. We have built our Employment and Labor Practice Group into a platform that offers specialized services and collaborative management for matters related to labor law and human resource management.

 

Our Strengths:

Global resources and multi-center approach: Our nationwide service network and Employment and Labor Practice Group ensure that we have labor lawyers delivering services across China's major business cities. Additionally, we possess extensive experience in handling cross-regional cases, and our extensive network enables seamless collaboration across different cities. Combining our professional capabilities with our local advantages, we provide clients with all-around, professional, holistic, and commercially valuable legal services in labor law. Our efforts have garnered high praise and widespread recognition from our clients.

 

Extensive engagement: We possess extensive experience in assisting clients with the establishment of employment and labor management systems, the daily management of labor contracts, the resolution of labor disputes, and labor arrangements in corporate reform, restructuring, and liquidation, and we have provided labor legal services for over 10,000 enterprises, including many Fortune Global 500 and Fortune China 500 companies.

 

Honors:

  • Recognized in the labor practice area in the 2022-2024 editions of Chambers Greater China Region Guide;
  • Recognized in the labor and employment practice area in the Greater China 2022-2025 editions of Legal 500;
  • Highly recommended in the labor and employment practice area in the 2021-2024 editions of asialaw Profiles;
  • Honored as the "Labor & Employment Firm of the Year 2022—China" by China Law & Practice; 
  • Recognized and highly recommended in the labor practice area for several consecutive years in the LEGALBAND Top Ranked Law Firms China rankings;
  • Nominated for several consecutive years for the "Labor and Employment Law Firm of the Year" award in the ALB China Law Awards.
     

 

Practice Areas and Services

 

HR Management Compliance Services

  • Employment and labor compliance services
  • Labor contracts and employee handbooks
  • Advisory services for foreign employees
  • Employee background checks
  • Handling employee whistleblower complaints and appeals
  • Internal compliance investigation
  • Various termination legal services
  • Salaries, wages, and welfare benefits
  • Retirement, retirement plans, pensions, and social insurance
  • Employee stock ownership plans and equity incentives
  • Application and Implementation of rest, leave, working hours, overtime, and special working hours
  • Labor union affairs
  • HR management compliance audits, social responsibility compliance, and ESG-related employment and labor compliance
  • Democratic processes, the establishment of employee representative councils, and the election and performance of employee directors/supervisors
  • HR management compliance for enterprises going global, employee cross-border relocation, overseas assignment, and global compensation and benefit design
  • Local Employee Compliance and Global Supply Chain Due Diligence (Forced Labor Risk)

(For Chinese companies with overseas subsidiaries, factories, or suppliers)


Labor Dispute Resolution

  • ADR services on labor disputes
  • Representation services on labor disputes
  • Services for coping with collective bargaining and actions


Corporate Services

  • Layoffs and personnel placement in M&A, business adjustments, corporate restructuring, shutdowns, production halts, and relocation
  • Employees data privacy
  • Protection of trade secrets and compliance with non-competition obligations
  • Anti-fraud and compliance investigation
  • Executive employment, dismissal, and compensation


Other Services

  • Customized corporate training and seminars

 

Media Commentaries

Dacheng Law Offices possesses an established practice with specialists offering advice on a range of employment law work. The team is experienced in handling disputes concerning terminations, overtime pay and bonus schemes. It also handles human resources management matters and labour issues arising out of transactions and outsourcing arrangements. The law firm represents a diverse range of clients including domestic and foreign entities, as well as state-owned enterprises. Its key clients include Xinpayroll Technology, GAC Toyota Motor and Wanlian Securities.
——Chambers Greater China Region Guide 2024

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