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Employment (PRC Firms)

China

13 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Carol (Yeping) Zhu

Greater China Region

Practice Areas

Labor & Employment, Compliance & Investigation, Litigation & Arbitration

Professional Memberships

Member, China National Lawyer's Association

Officer, Diversity and Equality Law Committee, International Bar Association (IBA)

Member, Labor & Employment Law Committee of IBA

Member, Employment & Immigration Law Committee, Inter-Pacific Bar Association

Personal

Carol Zhu is a partner in the firm's employment practice group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of labor and employment law from hiring to firing, including establishing and enforcing HR policies, drafting and reviewing HR related documents, employee benefit and incentive plan, confidentiality and restrictive covenants, privacy and data protection, labor dispatch and outsourcing, employee transition in mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, mass redundancies, collective consultation, especially on managing complicated employment dispute and handling related labor arbitration and litigation. She also assists clients with investigation of employee's misconduct and due diligence on employment compliance. In addition, she often helps international clients with global mobility and cross-border employment issues.

Carol has been ranked as a tier-one or leading labor and employment lawyer for consecutive years by Chambers, The Legal 500 and AsiaLaw, etc. She is also an officer of the Diversity and Equality Law Committee of the International Bar Association.

Work Highlights

• Advised a world-famous elevator company on the issues related to employment contract, flexible working hours system, work- related injuries and employees under medical treatment period etc.

• Advised a foreign-invested education company engaging in students' overseas exchange programs on reduction of employees' salary due to reduction in business caused by pandemic and termination of employment contracts with its foreign employees due to his incompetency

• Advised a US molds company on phantom share incentive scheme for its executive

• Advised a start-up pharmaceutical company on terminating several senior managers and negotiated with these senior managers on mutual separation and stock options arrangement for the company

• Advised a leading US labor and employment boutique on cross-border employment issues such as EOR or direct employment in China

• Advised a well-known foreign invested telecommunications company on its large- scale layoff in China, including attending all employee conference, employee representative meetings, communicate with trade union, labor authorities and police and participating termination negotiation with the employees

• Represented a world-famous investment company on labor arbitration and litigation filed by a former senior employee for the dispute on huge amount of bonus and overtime compensation

• Represented a former executive in the labor arbitration and litigation caused by his former employer’s denial of his resignation and his rights to exercise his vested stock options

• Represented a subsidiary of an Australian architectural planning and design group in China in an employment dispute with its expatriate general manager

• Represented a Fortune 500 company in handling labor arbitration and litigation cases involving a 5 million commission dispute filed by a former employee

• Advised a leading US manufacturer of microprocessors in investigation and termination of its office manager and represented the company in the subsequent mediation with the employee in the labor arbitration filed by the employee

• Represented a leading global luxury goods company in an investigation of alleged commercial bribery by a senior employee of its subsidiary in China and advised on the termination of the individual's employment contract

• Represented a well-known German medical device company in providing anti-corruption education and training to local distributors in China

• Provided services such as visa, work permit, residence permit application, extension, change, and cancellation to multiple multinational corporations

Languages Spoken

Chinese

English

Experience

Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm

Senior Associate, DLA Piper

HR Director for China, Tyco International, Thermal Controls

Head of HR for Asia Pacific Region, Libby Inc., UK Babcock AP Operations, etc.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

PRC Bar, 2005

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Greater China Region

Employment (PRC Firms) - China

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Individual Editorial
Carol Zhu is widely acclaimed for her expertise in dispute resolution and advisory work in the employment law space. Her deft handling of mass layoff projects, employee misconduct investigations and disputes attracts instructions from many domestic and foreign entities.
领先律师
朱叶萍律师以其在劳动法领域的争议解决和咨询工作的专长而广受赞誉。她在大规模裁员项目、员工不当行为调查和纠纷的娴熟处理手法吸引到许多国内和外国公司的委托。

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