Rights at Work: Promoting Harmonious Labour Relations through Collective Bargaining in China

The project is to strengthen collective bargaining processes and institutional capacity for more inclusive & sound labour relations at various levels.

Background

Over the past three decades of economic and social transformation, labour relations in China experienced rapid changes. In particular, interest-based collective disputes involving worker demands of higher wages and social protection have been on the rise.

The goal of building ‘harmonious labour relations’ has been widely espoused by policymakers as a key pillar of the country’s economic and social development. Collective bargaining has been promoted as a key mechanism for regulating labour relations, and recognized as an effective approach for improving employment and working conditions for workers while enahancing enterprise productivity and sustainable development.

Objectives

  1. To strengthen collective bargaining processes and institutional capacity for more inclusive & sound labour relations at various levels
  2. More effective institutions and governance frameworks for collective bargaining and labour dispute resolution

Expected outcomes

  1. Workers, employers and their respective organizations in the pilot programmes strengthen their institutional capacity to negotiate a range of issues in collective contracts and to extend the coverage of collective contracts that represents the rights and interests of vulnerable groups of workers
  2. Enhanced legislative provisions on collective bargaining and collective interest dispute resolution in national and local laws
  3. Gender as cross-cutting issues will be addressed in the project implementation

Partners

Beneficiaries

Policy makers, trade unions, and employers' organisations at national and local levels, workers' and employers' representatives

For further information please contact:

Ms Zhou Jie
ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia
1-10 Tayuan Diplomatic Office Building
Beijing 100600, P.R. China
Tel: 8610-6532 5091
Fax: 8610-6532 1420
Email: zhoujie@ilo.org