Implementing China's New Labor Law | Event Agenda
26th -27th June 2008, Renaissance Yuyuan Hotel, Shanghai

Event Agenda Conference Day One | 26th June 2008 0830 Morning coffee and registration 0900 Chairperson’s opening remarks Labour Law from the Employers’ Perspective 0910 Overview of the new obligations on employers set out by China’s new labor law Analysis on the legislative environment of the new labor law Evaluating the development trends of China’s labor law legislation and corresponding legal liabilities on employers What are the main requirements and changes in liabilities on employers with respect to employees? Jiang Jun Lu, Partner, King & Wood Law Firm Strategic Implications and Impact on Business 0950 Labor law at the operational level - How to deal with the risks? Implementing Rules: Will It Clarify the Ambiguities What to do with various uncertainties related to non-fix-term contract, contingent employees, probation period, training bond, severance Chris Lin, Labor Counsel, GE China 1030 Morning refreshment 1100 How to optimize labor contracts and enterprise regulations for advantage in labor disputes? The risks brought by the new labor Law to the enterprise? Three legal grounds that impact labor relationship and their interrelations How to avoid the risks through labor contract law and enterprise regulations Cao Zheng, Chief Arbitrator, Arbitration Committee of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area 1140 Aligning your strategic HR planning with long-term business goals Measuring HR performance across your organization to support business strategy Adding value to the overall business by facilitating HR management Identifying potential areas to reduce cost, increase effectiveness and improve the HR process Luke Wardle, Senior Partner, HC Group 1220 Networking luncheon Talent Recruitment & Selection Focus 1400 Panel Discussion: Tougher than ever for recruitment? Developing more effective recruitment and selection Exploring a search plan for potential employees and evaluating their previous performance Understanding the various mentalities of jobseekers and applying it to your recruitment plan Setting up a comprehensive development strategy to attract more qualified employees Simon Xu, Senior HR Manager, TRW China Zhang Xiu Chuan, HR Director, Trane China 1440  Benefits from campus recruitment Using different recruitment approaches to identify the graduate students with the right qualities Streamlining the recruitment process to save cost, time and energy Loletta Chow, Partner, Ernst & Young China (tba) 1520  Afternoon refreshment 1550  Strategies for managing temporary staff How do you convey this information succinctly and accurately to someone who might be unfamiliar with your company? The importance of correctly classifying independent contractors The cost of temporary workers Ways to get the most from temporary workers Liz Sullivan, HR VP, Starbucks China 1630  Panel discussion: What are the main recruitment concerns during company restructuring under the new labor law? What are the major corporate operations of restructuring which impacts talent recruitment? Dealing with complications in recruitment posed by company restructuring under the new labor law Irene Zhang, HR Director, International Paper China Li Lei, HR Director, NEXANS, Greater China Chris Lin, Labor Counsel, GE China 1710 End of conference day one Conference Day Two | 27th June 2008 0830 Morning coffee and registration 0900 Chairperson’s opening remarks Compensation & Benefits 0910 Managing compensation & benefits under the new labor law What are the new main concerns on compensation and benefits involved in the new labor law? How to develop a compensation structure to attract and retain key employees? Expatriating employee compensation & benefits solutions in China as an effective employee retention tool Edward Li, Senior Counselor, Johnson & Johnson Medicine 0950 Performance linked evaluation systems for training returns and rewards What are the market trends and practices? Linking pay to performance and implementing flexible compensation management Evaluating the returns from training by effective planning, post-training performance and assessment Keke Quei, Director of Board, Kinnogene Inc 1030 Morning refreshement 1100 Selecting the most effective incentive package: monetary plus non-monetary Comparisons on the return between monetary and non-monetary incentives in the next five years What do your employees think of your incentive plan? Integrating monetary and non-monetary incentives into one premium package Cindy Jensen, General Manager, BoldMoves China 1140 Corporate HR as a business partner HR as a Business Partner Sharing of Best Practice HR Concepts and Trends in Facilitated Experiential Session on relevant MARS P&O action items and next steps (Polaroid Session) Guido Lilio, Principal Consultant & Head Global Accounts, IWNC 1220 Networking luncheon Legislative Focus 1400 Requirements and implementation of employee councils The roles of employee councils under the labor laws Functions of the employees council in an MNC The employees’ council is not a total replacement of a labor union John Chu, Partner, Broad & Bright Law Firm 1440 Panel discussion: Contract Periods, permanent staff and open-term contract issues How to review the performance of potential permanent employees and renew the employment contract? Leveraging the open-term contract to retain key talent The risks and rewards of the open-term contract from the employers’ viewpoint Tony Ling, HR VP, AstraZeneca Shanghai Kevin Kang, HR VP, Tyco China John Chu, Partner, Broad & Bright 1520 Afternoon refreshment 1550 Termination and under-performance under the new labor contract law Overview of grounds for dismissal and conditions Compared with the previous labor contract law, what are the rectifications on standards of compensation and non-competition covenants? Obtaining evidence from the management structure to prevent and protect against possible future litigation Ma Jian Jun, Partner, Jun He Law Firm 1630 Mission Impossible for HR Directors under the new Employment Contract Law Handling Legal Risks: No discrimination when hiring and proper drafting of employment documents Employee Termination: Skills and knowledge required to handle early termination and labor disputes Trade Union: Critical and cannot be ignored by employers Isabella Wan, Senior Partner, TransAsia Law Firm 1710 Closing remarks from chairperson and end of conference   Please download free brochure for more details.

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