Labour Protection in China Challenges Facing Labour Offices and Social Insurance

One of the key institutional outcomes of China's economic reforms has been to create a new role for employers that is separate from the state, and allows enterprises to concentrate on their business. To protect workers, the government has set up public institutions for many social and administr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reutersward, Anders
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2005
Series:OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:One of the key institutional outcomes of China's economic reforms has been to create a new role for employers that is separate from the state, and allows enterprises to concentrate on their business. To protect workers, the government has set up public institutions for many social and administrative functions that until recently pertained to work units (danwei), or did not exist. This paper focuses on three such functions for which the 1994 Labour Law makes the government responsible: employment services, labour inspection and social insurance
Physical Description:32 p. 21 x 29.7cm