The Interim Provisions on Labor Dispatch were published by the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on January 24, 2014, and came into effect on March 1, 2014 (“Interim Provisions”). The Interim Provisions require that no more than 10 percent of a company’s total workforce can be engaged through labor-dispatch arrangements (akin to independent contract workers in common law countries). Companies that are not currently compliant with the Interim Provisions must adjust […]

Based on a recent Missouri Court of Appeals case, hospitals need to be aware that they could be liable for the acts or omissions of any physician on their medical staff, if such physician is considered an “employee” of the hospital according to common-law principles of agency. Such principles focus on the amount of control the hospital has over the physician’s work.

Brief Facts. In Jefferson et al. v. Missouri Baptist Medical Center et al., […]