Human Rights and China: Legal Reforms in the Field of Employment Discrimination

Professor Cai Dingjian, China University of Political Science and Law

Time: Tuesday 30 October, 14:00-16:00
Venue: Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Universitetsgaten 22/24, Seminar room on 4th floor

Professor Cai will talk about China’s current employment discrimination situation and the effects the new Employment Promotion Law adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress earlier this year may have on the human rights of Chinese employees and job seekers. The new law is intended to promote employment and to prohibit job discrimination and will be in effect from January 1st next year.

Professor Cai is Director of the Institute for Study on Constitutionalism at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and a former official in the National People's Congress. Professor Cai is one of China's leading experts on the Chinese legislative system and is the editor of a new book on non-discrimination that came out in 2007.

The China programme has worked on non-discrimination issues in employment for several years. In 2005 Lisa Stearns (then Director of the China programme, now on leave) and Professor Li Weiwei from Shenzhen University edited the first Chinese book on employment discrimination entitled: Employment Discrimination- International Standards and Domestic Practice.