Case

   Chen Sunqing vs. China Quanzhou International Techo-Economic Cooperation (Group) Co., Ltd.

   -Dispute over seaman service contract

Case No. & Date of Judgment

   (2015) XiaHaiFaShangChuZi No.486; 30 September 2017

Summary of Judgment

   The Court held that with respect to an issue related to social insurance of a Chinese labor working overseas, as it involves protection of the labor's rights and interests, the laws of the People's Republic of China shall apply. The Court further confirmed that benefits provided by a foreign shipowner to a seafarer through a labor dispatch service provider shall belong to the seafarer.

Note

   Full text of the judgment could be referred to on the China Judgements Online website (http://wenshu.court.gov.cn/).