The joint venture may sign a collective labor contract with the venture's trade union organization or sign contracts with individual staff and workers. Once a contract is signed it should be observed by both sides. The modification of a contract at the request of one side must be agreed upon by both sides and submitted for approval to the original approving organ.

In addition to the labor contracts, the joint venture may sign labor service contracts with the units which provide personnel or the local labor service companies on recruitment, employment and dismissal of workers and staff.

Article 6 The joint venture shall strengthen the work of regularly training the staff and workers to improve their technical skills. Expenses incurred in training may be handled in accordance with the "Supplementary Circular on the Interim Provisions for Control and Spending of Educational Funds for Staff and Workers" issued by the Ministry of Finance in 1982.

Article 7 When a joint venture wants to dismiss redundant staff and workers as a result of a change in production and technical conditions or other reasons during the contractual period, it must notify the venture's trade union organization and the dismissed staff and workers one month before the dismissal. The dismissal decision shall be submitted for the record to the department in charge of the venture and the local labor personnel department.
Workers and staff should not be dismissed during the period of their treatment or recuperation for industrial injury and occupational diseases or during the period of their treatment at hospitals for illness and injury irrelevant to their work. Women workers and staff also should not be dismissed during their pregnancy over six months or during maternity leave.

The joint venture should give compensation to those workers and staff who are dismissed during the period of the labor contract or after the expiration of the contract according to their length of work in the venture. The dismissed worker may be paid one month of the average wage of the venture for each full year's work. Those who have worked more than 10 years shall be paid one-and-half months of the average wage of the venture for each full year's work, starting from the 11th years.

Article 8 Workers and staff of a joint venture may resign for special reasons during the period of the labor contract and shall submit their application to the venture through their trade union organization one month before their resignation. The venture shall permit the resignations of workers and staff who have just reasons, but shall not give them compensation.

If the workers and staff, who received training provided by the venture want to resign during the contractual period, they shall compensate the venture for an agreed amount of the expenses incurred in their training.