• In order to further regulate the behavior of labor dispatch, promote the coordinated, orderly and healthy development of the labor dispatch market in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei region, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of dispatched workers, the Human Resources and Social Security Departments in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei region jointly issued the Employment Guidelines for Labor Dispatch Compliance in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Region.
• The Ministry of Emergency Management has revised the Regulations on Fines and Penalties for Production Safety Accidents and this revision mainly aimed at adapting to the current and future needs of fine penalties for production safety accidents.
• The General Office of the State Council has gazetted the Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Waste Recycling System, which is of great significance in enhancing the ability to ensure resources and energy security, helping to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and comprehensively promote the construction of a beautiful China.
• Updated Minimum Wage Standard of Hubei Province, Ningxia Autonomous Region, and Jiangxi Province.

Labour

< Employment Guidelines for Labor Dispatch Compliance in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Region >

Health and Safety

< Regulations on Fines and Penalties for Production Safety Accidents >

Environment

< Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Waste Recycling System >

Minimum Wage Standard Update

Hubei Province, Ningxia Autonomous Region, and Jiangxi Province

Labour

1. < Employment Guidelines for Labor Dispatch Compliance in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Region > (2024-02-03)

The Employment Guidelines for Labor Dispatch Compliance in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Region (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines) was jointly issued by the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province on 3^rd February 2024, to promote the coordinated, orderly, and healthy development of the labor dispatch market in the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei region, standardize labor dispatch employment behavior, and provide reference for labor dispatch entities and employers.

The Guidelines cover four aspects: labor dispatch entities, employing entities, labor dispute resolution, and handling of violations of labor security laws and regulations. The focus is on guiding the qualification behavior of labor dispatch entities and employing entities, clarifying the key content of the labor dispatch process through "Key Reminders", in order to guide employing entities to use dispatched workers in accordance with laws and regulations, and labor dispatch entities to carry out labor dispatch business activities in accordance with laws and regulations.

Meanwhile, the Guidelines also specify that whether the employing entity or the labor dispatch entity has a significant violation of labor security laws, regulations or rules, the human resources and social security department will handle it according to law and make it public in accordance with the provisions and include it in the labor security compliance and integrity file or give joint punishment.

Health and Safety

1. < Regulations on Fines and Penalties for Production Safety Accidents > (2024-03-01)

The Regulations on Fines and Penalties for Production Safety Accidents (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations) were reviewed and approved by the 32^nd ministerial meeting of the Ministry of Emergency Management on December 25, 2023, and had been come into force on March 1, 2024; The original Regulations on Penalties for Production Safety Accidents (Trial) shall be abolished simultaneously. The relevant revisions to the Regulations are as follows:

1.The Regulations further standardize the benchmarks for discretionary accident fine penalties by reasonably dividing the amount of fines for general accidents, major accidents, major accidents and particularly major accidents into different orders.

2.The Regulations combinate with practice and in accordance with the law to define the serious illegal situations, and clarify that the closure and destruction of monitoring, alarm, protection, and life-saving equipment that directly affect production safety are particularly serious and have a particularly adverse impact.

3.The Regulations have adjusted and clarified the amount of fines in accordance with legal provisions, then add provisions to impose fines on other responsible persons and safety production management personnel of accident facilities who fail to fulfill their safety production management responsibilities and resulting in production safety accidents.

Environment

1. < Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Waste Recycling System > (2024-02-06)

The Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Waste Recycling System has been gazetted by the General Office of the State Council on 6^th February 2024, the main contents are as follows:

1.Promote waste management and effective recycling

• Strengthen the fine management of industrial waste
• Improve the agricultural waste collection system
• Promote the classification and recycling of social source waste

2.Improve the level of recycling and reuse of waste

• Strengthen the comprehensive utilization of bulk solid waste
• Strengthen the efficient use of renewable resources
• Guide the facilitation and standardization of second-hand commodity trading
• Promote the remanufacturing of used equipment
• Promote the energy recovery of waste
• Promote the resource-recycling production model

3.Strengthen the recycling of key waste

• Strengthen the recycling of waste power batteries
• Strengthen the recycling of low-value recyclables
• Explore new waste recycling paths

4.Foster and scale the resource recycling industry

• Promote the development of industrial agglomeration
• Cultivate industry backbone enterprises
• Guide the standardized development of the industry

5.Improve policy mechanisms

• Improve supporting policies
• Improve the land use guarantee mechanism
• Improve the mechanism for scientific and technological innovation
• Improve the promotion and application mechanism of recycled materials

6.Strengthen organization and implementation

• Strengthen organizational leadership
• Strengthening publicity and guidance
• Strengthen international cooperation

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