Whether employees have to pay bankruptcy fees when requesting to open business bankruptcy procedures, according to the provisions of Article 22 of the Bankruptcy Law 2014 is as follows:

“Bankruptcy fees

The applicant requesting to open bankruptcy procedures must pay bankruptcy fees in accordance with the law on court fees and People's Court fees. In case the applicant specified in Clause 2, Article 5 and Point a, Clause 1, Article 105 of this Law does not have to pay bankruptcy fees.”

According to the above regulations, when an employee requests to open bankruptcy proceedings, he or she will not have to pay bankruptcy fees.