I have been reporting on this blog China’s new labour laws. Here is one report ‘China’s New Labor Law Falling By Wayside Amid Financial Crisis.’ (U.S. Daily Labor Report, http://www.bna.com/products/labor/dlr.htm) BEIJING—China’s much-vaunted labor contract law is losing its teeth amid the global financial crisis, labor rights groups have reported, as local governments back away from [...]
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China: rules on the new contract employment law
China: Employment Strategy For Foreign Investors In China After The Publication Of The Implementation Rules Of The Labor Contract Law. Please read other posts on Employment Contract law. This is an update by by Winston Zhao, Jessie Tang, Wilson L.K. Sung, Bob Oberlies and Zhe Wang. www.mondaq.com Ever since the promulgation of the Labor Contract [...]
Chinese workers fight back
The case of Ole Wolff (Yantai) Electronics Ltd This case of unusual rank and file union activism in China can be seen as both good and bad news. The good news is that, in the North-Eastern Chinese port city of Yantai there are workers’ willing to struggle for two years for their right to form [...]
Rocky Road to Labor Reform in China
Trouble at Wal-Mart: The Rocky Road to Labor Reform in China by GLS The industrial relations system in China is in play as workers, peasants, corporations, and a variety of civil society, state, and party actors vie to determine its future. Now the collapse of the global financial system and the likelihood of a deep [...]
The Chinese Unionise Wal-Mart 2006
At the high-rise Beijing headquarters of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) on 30/1/2007, I asked Ms Guo Chen from the Grass-Roots Organization and Capacity Building Department to go through their steps of unionising Wal-Mart. Why? The retailer Wal-Mart is the largest anti-union company in the world. The China union breakthrough is a significant [...]
2008 China labor law reforms – part one The content of the employment contract law
China’s President and Communist Party Secretary Hu Jintao and Government Premier Wen Jiabao supported these workplace ‘harmonisation’ reforms. China’s 10th National People’s Congress (NPC) passed the Labor Law on Employment Contracts on June 29th 2007 and in force from 1st January 2008. The Labor Law on Labor Disputes Mediation and Arbitration was operative from May [...]
2008 China labor laws – part two the union ACFTU
The All China Federation of Trade Unions ACFTUReport july 2008 The enhanced role for China’s union the ACFTU with new legal powers is important. The ACFTU is the one union allowed by law, organised nationally and in industry unions and hierachically in each region, local area and city. Article 11 of the Trade Union Law [...]
China labor laws 2008-employer compliance and the new conciliation and arbitration system
Avoidance or compliance? Labor administration strengthened The state apparatus at all levels has stronger compliance powers. Whether they employ sanctions against businesses in breach will be seen. The labor administration departments are to ensure improved investigation, supervision and inspections of companies. Cooney (2007b) details inadequacies in bureaucratic (non)implementation of earlier workplace rules. With inadequate numbers [...]
China: Workers and Unions – News July to September 2008
1. More MNC workers to get bargaining power China Daily 18 july 2008 More workers in multinational companies will be able to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests by September, a senior trade union official has said. Workers have been able to form trade unions in less than 50 percent of the Fortune Global 500 [...]
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