Married women who have had children are starting to gain
popularity among employers, reports Chongqing Morning
Post.
Joining a recent job fair in Chongqing municipality, a local
food processing company looks for unmarried female employees
between the age of 18 and 22 as well as women between the age of 22
to 25, who have been married and have given births.
A company representative, who declines to be identified, told
the newspaper that they made the requirement for the sake of saving
human resources expenditure since enterprises suffer from losses
resulting from female employees' maternity leaves.
He added that as married women with children are less likely to
change their jobs, hiring them would stabilize the structure of an
enterprise's workforce.
China's new Labor Contract Law, which went into effect on the
first day of the New Year, aims to provide more legal recourse for
employees and increase their benefits. The newspaper quotes human
resources experts as saying that the number of enterprises
adjusting their employment policies along with the implementation
of new Labor Contract Law is on the rise.
(CRI February 15, 2008)