Abstract: Off farm workers in China often confront difficulties in offering proofs when protecting their legal rights while it is employers′ obligation to establish archives for the off farm workers according to regulations.The author hereby suggests that the principle of reversed onus probandi should be adopted so that off farm workers have better opportunity to protect their legal rights by just providing the basic evidence.

Key words: Off farm worker archives, Off farm worker rights, onus probandi, reversed onus probandi