In Chinese labor law, employment discrimination refers to making an adverse employment determination based on an illegitimate factor such as race, religion, or age, without a lawful justification. Discrimination remains common despite laws against it in China, and there remain employers who explicitly refuse to hire on the basis of purely personal characteristics. The most common forms of discrimination are imposing age restrictions on jobs that exclude older workers. Many employers will refuse to hire workers from certain geographic regions such as Henan, although these two practices were more recently condemned as absolutely illegal by a recent Supreme Court opinion.

To learn more, take a look at our articles on age discrimination and sex discrimination.