The Current Situation Of Chinese Collective Agreement And Problem Solving

The collective agreement system is a very important system in adjusting work relations, solving labor contradiction and resolving labor dispute. This has been proved by the more than one hundred years history in those developed countries. However, in China, the collective agreement system is just starting and has not given full play to the defending of the workers' legitimate rights and the coordination of working relations. Chinese social market is forming on the macroscopic and modern enterprises system is establishing on the microscopic. This challenges adjusting system of working relations. This article tries to discuss the current situation of the collective agreement from basic legal principles; to discuss the problems and causes from the legislation of collective agreement, labor union's independence, the collective bargaining, the establishment of multi-level collective agreement system; to discuss the necessity and possibility of realizing the system from the changes of working relations principal benefit, infringement of labors' lawful rights and interests, lack of ways of adjusting working relations, exacerbation of labor disputes; to discuss the ways of solving problems and practicing the collective agreement system from the legislation, the independence of labor union, multi-level collective agreement system, government supervising. The essay believes the collective agreement system should be perfected rapidly both in legislation and in practice and the important role should be fully played in safeguarding labors' lawful rights and interests and coordinating working relations.