【正文】 written employment contract with an Employee within one year from the date on which it starts employing the Employee, the Employer and the Employee shall be deemed to have concluded an openended employment contract. Article 15An “employment contract with a term to expire upon pletion of a certain job” is an employment contract in which the Employer and the Employee have agreed that the pletion of a certain job is the term of the contract. An Employer and an Employee may, upon reaching a negotiated consensus, conclude an employment contract with a term to expire upon pletion of a certain job. Article 16An employment contract shall bee effective when the Employer and the Employee have reached a negotiated consensus thereon and each of them has signed or sealed the text of such contract. The Employer and the Employee shall each hold one copy of the employment contract. Article 17An employment contract shall specify the following matters: (1) The name, domicile and legal representative or main person in charge of the Employer。 (5) Working hours, rest and leave。 and (9) Other matters which laws and statutes require to be included in employment contracts. In addition to the requisite terms mentioned above, an Employer and an Employee may agree to stipulate other matters in the employment contract, such as probation period, training, confidentiality, supplementary insurance and benefits, etc. Article 18If a dispute arises due to the fact that the rate or standards for pensation or working conditions, etc. are not explicitly specified in the employment contract, the Employer and the Employee may renegotiate. If the negotiations are unsuccessful, the provisions of the collective contract shall apply. If there is no collective contract or the collective contract is silent on the issue of pensation, equal pay shall be given for equal work。 (2) The Employer disclaims its legal liability or denies the Employee his rights。CHAPTER 4 TERMINATION AND ENDING OF EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTSArticle 36An Employer and an Employee may terminate their employment contract if they so agree after consultations. Article 37An Employee may terminate his employment contract upon 30 days’ prior written notice to his Employer. During his probation period, an Employee may terminate his employment contract by giving his Employer three days’ prior notice. Article 38An Employee may terminate his employment contract if his Employer: (1) Fails to provide the labor protection or working conditions specified in the employment contract。 (5) causes the employment contract to be invalid due to a circumstance specified in the first paragraph of Article 26 hereof。 (4) has additionally established an employment relationship with another Employer which materially affects the pletion of his tasks with the firstmentioned Employer, or he refuses to rectify the matter after the same is brought to his attention by the Employer。 or (3) A major change in the objective circumstances relied upon at the time of conclusion of the employment contract renders it unperformable and, after consultations, the Employer and Employee are unable to reach agreement on amending the employment contract. Article 41If any of the following circumstances makes it necessary to reduce the workforce by 20 persons or more or by a number of persons that is less than 20 but accounts for 10 percent or more of the total number of the enterprise’s employees, the Employer may reduce the workforce after it has explained the circumstances to its Labor Union or to all of its employees 30 days in advance, has considered the opinions of the Labor Union or the employees and has subsequently reported the workforce reduction plan to the labor administration department: (1) Restructuring pursuant to the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law。 (2) Who have concluded openended employment contracts with the Employer。 (4) Is a female employee in her pregnancy, confinement or nursing period。 (3) The Employee dies, or is declared dead or missing by a People’s Court。 (2) The employment contract is terminated after such termination was proposed to the Employee by the Employer pursuant to Article 36 hereof and the parties reached agreement thereon after consultations。 (6) The employment contract ends pursuant to item (4) or (5) of Article 44 hereof。Article 51After bargaining on an equal basis, enterprise employees, as one party, and their Employer may conclude a collective contract on such matters as pensation, working hours, rest, leave, work safety and hygiene, insurance, benefits, etc. The draft of the collective contract shall be presented to the employee representative congress or all the employees for discussion and approval. A collective contract shall be concluded by the Labor Union, on behalf of the enterprise’s employees, and the Employer. If the Employer does not yet have a Labor Union, it shall 1 Translator’s note: The phrase “of the area” does not appear in the Chinese text. It has been added by us in view of the context.Conclude the collective contract with a representative put forward by the Employees under the guidance of the Labor Union at the next higher level. Article 52Enterprise employees, as one party, and their Employer may enter into specialized collective contracts addressing labor safety and hygiene, protection of the rights and interests of female employees, the wage adjustment mechanism, etc. Article 53Industrywide or areawide collective contracts may be concluded between the Labor Union on the one hand and representatives on the side of the enterprises on the other hand in industries such as construction, mining, catering services, etc. within areas below the county level. Article 54After a collective contract has been concluded, it shall be submitted to the labor administration authority. The collective contract shall bee effective upon the lapse of 15 days from the date of re