广东拟规定转型升级企业裁员超20人需报告

Guangdong Intends to Stipulate That Redundancy of Over 20 Employees during Enterprise's Restructuring and Upgrading Shall Be Reported

广东省人社厅日前发布相关规定，在企业转型升级中，企业裁员20人以上需向工会或全体职工说明，并将裁员方案向人社部门报告。

Guangdong Human Resource and Social Security Office recently promulgated a regulation, stipulating that an enterprise that would lay off over 20 employees during its restructuring and upgrading shall explain the case to the trade union and all employees and meanwhile report the redundancy scheme to Guangdong Human Resource and Social Security Office.

上海：病假扣除休息日和法定节假日

Shanghai: Weekends and Statutory Holidays Shall Be Deducted from Sick Leave

上海市人力资源和社会保障服务热线12333工作人员证实，病假是扣除休息日和法定节假日的，但是计算病假时所说的一个月，并非是自然月，而是20.83天。

Staff with service hotline 12333 of Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau confirmed that weekends and statutory holidays shall be excluded during the calculation of sick leave. However, the so-called one-month's sick leave does not refer to a natural month, but 20.83 days in actual operation.

广州重金吸纳金融机构落户：最高奖励2500万元

Guangzhou: Attracting Financial Institutions with Fat Rewards: Capping at RMB 25 Million

广州市日前出台了《关于支持广州区域金融中心建设的若干规定》，重点明确了建设区域金融中心的扶持资金，将重金吸纳海内外金融机构落户广州，最高一次性奖励2500万元。

The Several Regulations on the Support of Building Regional Financial Centers in Guangzhou recently promulgated by Guangzhou clarified the support funds for the construction of regional financial centers. This move aims to attract financial institutions both at home and abroad to settle in Guangzhou, with the highest one-time award of RMB 25 million.

戴相龙：可通过延长退休年龄弥补养老金缺口

Dai Xianglong: Gap in the Old-age Pension Can Be Solved by Extending Retirement Age

全国社保基金理事会党组书记戴相龙日前表示，养老金确有缺口，并建议通过延长退休年龄、加大国有资产划拨社保的力度等方式弥补，并逐步形成政府、企业和个人账户共同组成的养老金制度。

Dai Xianglong, Party Secretary of the National Council for Social Security Fund, recently said that the old-age pension was indeed in shortage and he suggested using methods such as extending the retirement age and intensifying the assurance of state-owned assets to social insurance funds to make up for the gap, and gradually forming an old-age pension system jointly contributed by government, enterprise, and personal accounts.

中国或很快启动人民币与澳元的直接交易

China May Soon Enable RMB's Direct Trading with AUD

有消息称，在中澳两国金融和贸易联系日益紧密之际，中国或很快启动人民币与澳元的直接交易。

It is said that along with the increasingly close financial and trade ties between China and Australia, China may soon enable the direct trading of RMB with AUD.