By Mary Jones, International Employment Specialist · Reviewed by Sarah Bloom, Editor · Updated
China restricts labour dispatch to the permitted categories of work and caps dispatched workers at 10% of the receiving unit’s workforce under the interim rules. Source ↗
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China restricts labour dispatch to the permitted categories of work and caps dispatched workers at 10% of the receiving unit’s workforce under the interim rules. A permanent core role cannot simply be relabelled as dispatch because a supplier sells an EOR service.
Resolve the role category, dispatch structure and receiving entity before choosing a provider or committing to a start date.
Sources: Chinese labour authority: interim labour-dispatch provisions
Chinese employment budgets need social-insurance and housing-provident-fund lines, not only salary and an EOR fee. Shanghai’s government guidance identifies pension, medical, work-injury, unemployment and maternity insurance, alongside the housing fund. Use the employee’s actual location and applicable contribution rules rather than treating a Shanghai calculation as a national rate.
Foreign-national treatment can depend on applicable social-security agreements; establish the worker’s status before budgeting.
Sources: Shanghai Government: social insurance and housing fund
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