Every foreigner who works in China is supposed to hold a Work Permit issued by local labor department. Otherwise, the employment of the foreigner is illegal. The consequences of this illegality will be (1) penalties that may be imposed by local labor department and local police, and (2) more importantly, the change of the relationship between the foreigner…
Recently, I scored a big victory in a case against Shanghai Labor Department (“SHD“) in which we sued SHD for wrongly cancelling the work permit of my client, an American individual. The court judgment, coming after long period of intentional delay, declared that SHD’s cancellation of alien work permit based on the unilateral application…