Employee Relation in China - Assignment

Contemporary international
issue

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Employee relation means the organisation's effort to manage the relationship between the
management and workers and provides fair treatment to all the workers that helps to committed
and loyal to an organisation. Trade union is formed by the workers to protect the common
interest related to their work of the members in particular industry, company and trade. The role
of the union is to secure the rights of the workers against their pay, working condition and
benefits.
The following assignment is based upon the role of the union in employee relation in
China. The assignment will also provide an understanding about labour relation which affect the
productivity of the organisation. In addition to this it also includes issues faced by employees in
China. Among all the most important unequal pay and no local government support to the labour
union, in which the employees are discriminated on the basis of their education(urban and rural).
This issue is mostly faced by employee who comes from rural area in this China that are consider
as the low level employees within China.
MAIN BODY
The role of unions in employee relations in china
The first union law of China was enacted in 1950 of the people's republic . Under this law
they introduce the specifies rights and obligations of the unions of the china. As the political,
social and economical situation of the china has undergone profound changes that shifted
towards the socialist market economy. China economy is rapidly developed as well as issues
related to the labour is also developed. The issues related to the labour is increased day by day.
For example China's socialist economy is promised to provide the job security for life long to
the employees but the effect of this is negative because the companies in china enhances their
production so they employed over staff as well as provide job security that reduces their
incentive of the work that creates dissatisfaction within the employees and enhance the issue
between the management and union(Noe and et.al.,2017).
All-China federation of trade union(ACFTU) is established in 1925 that represent the
interest of the trade union councils as well as local and national trade union. It is the nationalized
organisation federation in China for the people's republic. ACFTU is the largest trade union in
the world. It have 302 million members of 1713000 trade union organisation. It is divided into 10
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