Legal basis:
Labor Contract Law
Article 9 The employing unit shall not detain the employee's resident identity card and other documents, and shall not require the employee to provide guarantee or collect property from the employee in other names.
Article 22 Where an employing unit provides special training fees and professional technical training for laborers, it may conclude an agreement with the laborers to stipulate the service period. If the laborer violates the service period agreement, he shall pay liquidated damages to the employer in accordance with the agreement. The amount of liquidated damages shall not exceed the training expenses provided by the employer. The liquidated damages that the employer requires the workers to pay shall not exceed the training expenses that should be shared for the unfinished part of the service period. If the employer and the employee agree on the service period, it will not affect the employee's improvement of labor remuneration in accordance with the normal wage adjustment mechanism during the service period.
Attachment: Notice of the former Ministry of Labor on prohibiting employers from charging employees in violation of regulations.
Labor (labor and personnel) departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
Some employers charge workers fees in violation of regulations when hiring employees, and take payment as a prerequisite for hiring. Their names include fund-raising, venture fund, training fee, mortgage, deposit and so on. What's more, individual employers simply don't have new jobs, but only employ employees as a channel to raise funds, and the employed employees can't go to work for a long time, which seriously damages the legitimate rights and interests of these workers. This illegal charging behavior of hiring employees must be corrected. To this end, we hereby notify you as follows: (omitted)