The Finnish cell phone giant, Nokia, has laid off 170 employees in China.  Chinese officials say Nokia broke Chinese law, by giving only a ten day notice to the employees.

“Nokia China’s layoff at least violates the labor law in terms of procedure and according to the number of employees to be laid off and reasons, it is a staff reduction due to economic reasons.”-Zhao Zhanling, an IT law expert

Chinese law requires companies to give employees at least 30 days notice before being laid off.

Nokia officials would only say that the lay offs were not economically motivated.  In the past few months Nokia has seen huge drops in sales, not only in China, but around the world.