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In the current debate about employee’s financial participation in their companies, a lot of attention has focussed on the Spanish model of Sociedades Laborales. These three briefings, commissioned by Policy Department A for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL), present the legal framework for these companies as well as statistics on their survival rate and job retention, an academic’s view of the model and a practitioner’s observations. Past attempts at transposing the model to other ...

On 12 November 2013, the Central Committee of China's Communist Party adopted measures to 'deepen reform'. The reforms would support China's economic development. Legal reform will continue, but the Party’s supremacy and application of law remain key issues. Re-education through labour is to be abandoned. China will gradually reduce the number of crimes subject to the death penalty. Public ownership will remain at the centre of the Chinese economic system. State-owned enterprises will lose some of ...