【正文】 may conclude an agreement specifying a term of service with such Employee. If the Employee breaches the agreement on the term of service, he shall pay liquidated damages to the Employer as agreed. The measure of the liquidated damages may not exceed the training expenses paid by the Employer. The liquidated damages that the Employer requires the Employee to pay may not exceed the portion of the training expenses allocable to the unperformed portion of the term of service. The reaching of agreement on a term of service between the Employer and the Employee does not affect the raising of the Employee’s pensation during the term of service according to the normal wage adjustment mechanism. Article 23An Employer and an Employee may include in their employment contract provisions on confidentiality matters relating to maintaining the confidentiality of the trade secrets of the Employer and to intellectual property. If an Employee has a confidentiality obligation, the Employer may agree with the Employee on petition restriction provisions in the employment contract or confidentiality agreement, and stipulate that the Employer shall pay financial pensation to the Employee on a monthly basis during the term of the petition restriction after the termination or ending of the employment contract. If the Employee breaches the petition restriction provisions, he shall pay liquidated damages to the Employer as stipulated. Article 24The personnel subject to petition restrictions shall be limited to the Employer’s senior management, senior technicians and other personnel with a confidentiality obligation. The scope, territory and term of the petition restrictions shall be agreed upon by the Employer and the Employee, and such agreement shall not violate laws and regulations. The term, counted from the termination or ending of the employment contract, for which a person as mentioned in the preceding paragraph is subject to petition restrictions in terms of his working for a peting Employer that produces the same type of products or is engaged in the same type of business as his current Employer, or in terms of his establishing his own business to produce the same type of products or engage in the same type of business, shall not exceed two years. Article 25With the exception of the circumstances specified in Articles 22 and 23 hereof, an Employer may not stipulate with an Employee provisions on the bearing of liquidated damages by the Employee. Article 26An employment contract shall be invalid or partially invalid if: (1) A party uses such means as deception or coercion, or takes advantage of the other party’s difficulties, to cause the other party to conclude an employment contract, or to make an amendment thereto, that is contrary to that party’s true intent。 and the People’s Court shall issue such order in accordance with the law. Article 31Employers shall strictly implement the work quota standards and may not pel or in a disguised manner pel Employees to work overtime. If an Employer arranges for an Employee to work overtime, it shall pay him overtime pay in accordance with the relevant state regulations.Article 32Employees shall not be held in breach of their employment contracts if they refuse to perform dangerous operations that are instructed in violation of regulations or peremptorily ordered by management staff of the Employer. Employees have the right to criticize, report to the authorities or lodge accusations against their Employers in respect of working conditions that endanger their lives or health. Article 33Changes such a change in the name, legal representative or main person in charge of, or an (the) investor(s) in, an Employer shall not affect the performance of its employment contracts. Article 34If an Employer is merged or divided, etc., its existing employment contracts shall remain valid and continue to be performed by the Employer(s) which succeeded to its rights and obligations Article 35An Employer and an Employee may amend the provisions of their employment contract if they so agree after consultations. Amendments to an employment contract shall be made in writing. The Employer and the Employee shall each hold one copy of the amended employment contract. (4) Has rules and regulations that violate laws or regulations, thereby harming the Employee’s rights and interests。 (3) Commits serious dereliction of duty or practices graft, causing substantial damage to the Employer。 (2) The Employee is inpetent and remains inpetent after training or adjustment of his position。 or (4) Another major change in the objective economic circumstances relied upon at the time of conclusion of the employment contracts, rendering them unperformable. When reducing the workforce, the Employer shall retain with priority persons: (1) Who have concluded with the Employer fixedterm employment contracts with a relatively long term。 (3) Has contracted an illness or sustained a nonworkrelated injury, and the set period of medical care therefore has not expired。 (2) The Employee has menced drawing his basic old age insurance pension in accordance with the law。 or (6) Another circumstance specified in laws or administrative statutes arises. Article 45If an employment contract expires and any of the circumstances specified in Article 42 hereof applies, the term of the employment contract shall be extended until the relevant circumstance ceases to exist, at which point the contract shall end. However, matters relating to the ending of the employment contract of an Employee who has lost or partially lost his capacity to work as specified in item (2) of Article 42 hereof shall be handled in accordance with state regulations on workrelated injury insurance. Article 46In any of the following circumstances, the Employer shall pay the Employee severance pay: (1) The employment contract is terminated by the Employee pursu