In Chinese employment law, sick leave is a human resources process for when an employee is sick or was injured off the job; it results in granting the statutory medical leave, which has special requirements based on the worker’s seniority. Employees are paid when taking sick leave at a rate no less than 80% of the local minimum wage. It’s important to observe that the statutes do not make reference to “sick leave,” instead only to “medical leave” but that most human resources policies refer to sick leave.

Learn more about managing China employee sick leave here.