Recent decisions from local civil courts in Shenyang have shifted the jurisdiction on employment contracts in football from civil courts to the CFA Arbitration Commission.
Shenyang Dongjing FC v. Li Gen [2018] Retrail no. 32; Zhang Lian Yang v. Shenyang Dongjing FC [2017] Second Instance no. 6076
Under the current labor law framework, all employment-related disputes in China shall be settled, at first instance, before the appropriate arbitration commission for labor disputes, a procedural requirement established by law. After this first procedural step, in case any of the parties intends to appeal the award, it shall file an appeal before the competent civil court, with further appeal to the competent intermediary civil court, whose decision will then be final and binding.
With reference to sports labor disputes, Article 22 of the Sports Law provides that any dispute arising from competitive sports...
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