Chinas Effort To Implement Collective Wage

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. The Chinese Government and the All-China Federal Trade Unions (ACFTU)are escalating efforts to promote collective wage bargaining amongst corporations, especially multinationals operating in the country.

Trade unions have been formed in a number of enterprises according to the All-China Federal Trade Unions (ACFTU) reports. Legally, the unions nature is an organization formed by the employees voluntarily under Peoples Republic of China (PRC) Trade Union Law. While an employer has no obligation to form a trade union, they also have no e right to form a trade union irrespective of the employees opinions. The ACFTU and the central government in 2004 initiated a campaign targeted especially at foreign-invested enterprises to form a trade union.

China aims to rope in 80 percent of its enterprises with labor unions in what it terms as the Rainbow Plan, which is a massive effort to institute collective wage bargaining practices in the country by 2013. For smaller companies without labor unions, the collective bargaining will be in the form of regional or industry-specified collective contracts.

First announced in 2010, efforts to promote the plan have gained steam recently in view of increasing labor disputes in the country. The current labor law gives a brief outline for collective bargaining but it is difficult to enforce in practice due to bureaucratic hassles. In a recent case Swedish firm Ikea agreed to higher monthly wages and pay hikes linked to companys yearly turnover for employees under the collective bargaining agreement.

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by: brianwarren

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