Chinese Labour Law Research Articles

The New Trend of the Chinese Labour Law

The New Trend of the Chinese Labour Law

China's Labour Law, Compliance and Flaws in Implementing Institutions

This article examines some of the factors contributing to the widespread compliance failures experienced by Chinese labour law. It focuses on the nature of the legal rules and the structure of state and quasi-state institutions charged with implementing the law. While the basic legal framework regulating labour in China appears designed to prevent many abuses, the lack of settled detail inhibits effective enforcement. The labour inspectorate, formal dispute resolution processes and the official trade union organization each suffer from weaknesses reducing their capacity to elicit compliance with the law. Some improvements to the law and the institutions are already being implemented. The article suggests further areas of reform that may increase compliance, within the constraints of China's current political realities.

Personnel management system reform in Chinese automobile industry

For this study, an exploreation was made to identify basic features of the Chinese personnel management system which is stated in the Chinese labor law in a compartive perspective. Managers and workers were asked to evaluate the features of Chinese systems in comparison with Japanese and American systems by using the questionnaire method. Results of the study suggested that an unique Chinese system is about to emerge with features as follows.(1) Employment is based on the long-term contract rather than a short-term or lifetime relations.(2) The job assignment is based on the within-group lotation, instead of fixed or flexible assignment.(3) The wage is determined by combining the basic wage with the job-related wage (job plus merit components).(4) In auto industry, HRD is undertaken for creating multi-skill, labor-saving work force.(5) The industrial and labor relations in China is maintained by the Workers Association which is a part of the Chinese social-political systems and also function as a workers' association at the workplace to protect their common interests in harmony with management and the socialist central government. These features were delived from the analyses of response patterns based on the questionnaire data and examined in comparison with Japanese and American systems.