LEGAL TIPS: What Are the Legal Requirements for Changing Jobs in China?
Channel: China Review Studio
Date: 2024-04-07

Daisy is a foreign fitness coach who, with the help of a Chinese company, has obtained a work permit and a work-type residence permit. Later, when Daisy changes her job, she overlooks the necessary procedures for updating her documentation, resulting in both her and the new employer being suspected of violating the law.
Officer Xiao Wen informs Daisy and the person in charge at the new company that the employer of the foreign employee in China shall be the same as specified in their Work Permit. When the foreigner switches employers within the area designated by the Certificate Office but stays in a job of the same nature, the change must be approved by the original Certificate Office and recorded in their Work Permit. The foreign employee should, within ten days after obtaining the approval for extension of their term of employment in China or the change of their employment location or their employer, go through formalities for the extension or change of their residence permit at the local public security organs.
Finally, with Officer Xiao Wen's assistance, they voluntarily go to the public security bureau to accept the punishment and promptly complete the necessary procedures.