(Adopted at the Eighth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on July 5, 1994, and effective as of January 1, 1995)

Chapter II Promotion of Employment

        Article 12 Labourers, regardless of their ethnic group, race, sex, or religious belief, shall not be discriminated against in employment. Article 13 Women shall enjoy the equal right, with men, to employment.
        Article 13 Women shall enjoy the equal right, with men, to employment. With exception of the special types of work or post unsuitable to women as prescribed by the State, no unit may, in employing staff and workers, refuse to employ women by reason of sex or raise the employment standards for women.
        Article 15 No employing unit is allowed to recruit minors under the age of 16.
        Institutions of literature and art, physical culture, and special arts and crafts that recruit minors under the age of 16 must go through the formalities of examination and approval in accordance with the re-levant provisions of the State and guarantee their right to compulsory education.