The Exit and Entry Administration Law 2013 (EEAL) in China has been widely considered to be a major step forward in developing a more comprehensive legal regulatory regime for dealing with the rising inflow of foreigners to the country in recent decades. Situated in a policy discourse aimed at...

The Exit and Entry Administration Law 2013 (EEAL) in China has been widely considered to be a major step forward in developing a more comprehensive legal regulatory regime for dealing with the rising inflow of foreigners to the country in recent decades. Situated in a policy discourse aimed at...

The term 'fissured workplace' has been coined by David Weil to describe fundamental changes in the organisation of work arising from firms' competitive strategies in the 21st century. As Weil put it, fissurisation refers to 'both a form of employment (for example, temporary agency employment;...

There has been nascent litigation around the world on the employment classification of workers in the ‘sharing economy', ‘gig economy' or ‘on demand economy'. New business models and forms of work organization arising from rapid advancements in digital technologies (or ‘disruptive...

The psycho-legal concept of ‘rights apathy' is developed in this paper as an underlying factor of the very low incidence of workplace discrimination lawsuits filed in China, despite an increasingly elaborate legal framework on paper and workers' rising awareness of their legal rights under...

The prolonged debate on introducing statutory rules on standard working hours (SWH) in Hong Kong has reached a deadlock between employers' and labour representatives. Our article seeks to provide a critical analysis of this debate. We argue that the debate and the regulatory techniques proposed...