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1. Introduction

On January 1, 2008, the Labor Contract Law of the PeoplesRepublic of China (LCL) became effective, resulting in wide-spread changes in labor policy for all companies and other af-fected organizations. As is the case with legislating in China,many details were left for resolution in implementing regulations,which, in this case, the Implementation Regulations for the LaborContract Law of the Peoples Republic of China (ImplementationRegulations) were issued for comment in May, and then promul-gated and effective (in modified form) on September 18, 2008.