China's national legislature on Saturday dismissed Yang Jing from his state councilor post after he was investigated for severe disciplinary violations.At its bimonthly session, the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress also voted to remove Yang from the post of secretary-general of the State Council.It came as the ruling party's disciplinary watchdog announced Yang's investigation.The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Yang was found to have severely violated political discipline and rules and had long-term improper association with illegal business owners and social personnel.Yang confessed to his wrongdoing and expressed remorse, it said, meting out punishments including one year probation within the Party, removal from his current administrative post and demotion to ministerial level.The disciplinary watchdog said the punishment, approved at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, would be implemented with due process.Yang, an ethnic Mongolian, was born in 1953. He worked a long political career in Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.In 2013, Yang was appointed state councilor and secretary-general of the State Council.He was also a member of the 18th CPC Central Committee Secretariat. solid color silicone wristbandsmake custom bracelets onlinemake your own wristbandcool silicone wristbands for guyswhite rubber wristbands
In the past three years, Beijing has seen a growing number of labor disputes involving legal questions about employer-employee relationships.Many of the disputes have centered on smartphone applications, as the mobile economy has developed rapidly, courts in the capital reported on Tuesday.With more people working for increasingly prosperous internet platforms since 2015 - especially smartphone applications that provide car-hailing and food services - app operators have been taken to court more frequently, Beijing High People's Court said."Such new labor cases have been a challenge for our hearings, and the number is still going up," the court told China Daily, though it did not give an exact citywide figure.On Tuesday, a report made by Chaoyang District People's Court said that it heard 188 such lawsuits from January 2015 to March this year; Haidian District People's Court concluded 55 such cases between January 2016 and February this year.Different from traditional employment, the mobile app job is "flexible", said Wu Kemeng, a judge in Chaoyang. "Some app platforms without fixed workplaces are more like a bridge connecting customers and service providers, and many workers don't need a full day at work.""That is to say, it's difficult to verify whether there is a labor relationship between the free workers and the app platforms. This is the focus of many lawsuits as well as the challenge in the hearings," he said."Some agreements between app operators and workers can only be regarded as cooperation or information sharing, which means the providers in these cases are not protected under the Labor Law," he said.In June 2016, for example, the court rejected the claim of an employment relationship between 56 people and Mei Mei Da, a popular beauty app, because the workers had only provided nail-painting services in accordance with customers information collected by the platform."The workers made decisions on when and where to provide the services by themselves, and they didn't agree on salaries with the app operators," said Xiao Wei, another judge of the court. "In other words, the platform just shared clients' information with them instead of managing them."She warned job seekers to be more careful, "as people without a labor relationship cannot get social insurance under the law"."If an app platform requires a certain working time and place and has a system for governing attendance, its agreement with service providers may be more easily identified as a labor relationship," she added.Wang Yan, a judge from Haidian district, suggested the city's labor administrations strengthen supervision of app platforms to prevent them from intentionally shirking their responsibilities or cheating job-seekers."As the apps bring more job opportunities, they must be better regulated," she said. custom-rubber-braceletscystic fibrosis rubber braceletswide rubber braceletsgym rubber braceletsblank-wristband<%2fcenter>
