导入SA8000 促进和谐劳动关系

SA8000是全球第一个可用于第三方认证的企业社会责任国际标准,它的实质是对劳工权益的保护,不能简单地认为它是发达国家的一种贸易壁垒新形式。导入SA8000可以有效地协调劳资双方的关系,推动和谐劳动关系的形成和发展。     

关于劳动教养制度的法律思考

分析了目前劳动教养制度存在的法律缺陷,主要是劳动教养制度与我国其他法律制度及我国加入的国际人权公约存在冲突、劳动教养的适用条件不明确和劳动教养的审批程序违背程序正义等,进而提出:一是将劳动教养制度纳入司法体系,二是进一步明确劳动教养的对象,三是建立多样性的劳动教养执行方式。     

我国劳动争议处理体制的评析

本文通过对我国现行的“一协一调一裁二审”劳动争议处理体制的分析,指出其中存在的弊端。结合我国国情,提出了限制和解,改善和加强劳动调解制度,规范、健全仲裁制度,实行“裁审分轨”,以及建立劳动诉讼制度的建议,以完善我国劳动争议处理体制。     

浅析劳动分红的分配份额和形式

劳动分红是依据劳动要素对经济的贡献来决定的分配形式,是企业在向劳动者支付了工资之后,再将一定比例的利润或超额利润向劳动者进行分配的制度.劳动要素与其它参与收益分配要素权利平等,所分配份额要大于其它要素分配份额.     

科学地描述和展现马克思关于劳动和劳动价值理论的发展轨迹

江泽民在“七一讲话”中提出“应该结合新的实际,深化对社会主义社会劳动和劳劝价值理论 的研究和认识”。要搞清楚这个问题,必须借助当代科学最新的研究成果,用新的视角和眼光,对马 克思关于劳动价值理论进行新的剖析,科学地展现劳动力的内在要素,就会更清晰、深刻、全面地把 握劳动力问题,弄清它的过去、现在和未来。     

教育收益率的性别差异分析

很多研究均发现女性的教育收益率显著高于男性。本文利用中国城镇居民入户调查数据,也发现2004年中国城镇女性职工的教育收益率比男性高约2个百分点。进一步的分析表明,职工的教育水平与其面临的工资性别歧视程度呈反向关系,即低教育水平职工中的工资性别歧视程度更高,结果导致不同教育水平的女性之间的工资差异比男性更大,从而女性的教育收益率更高。     

Unmet Need for Workplace Accommodation

We use experimental survey methods in a nationally representative survey to test alternative ways of identifying (1) individuals in the population who would be better able to work if they received workplace accommodation for a health condition; (2) the rate at which these individuals receive workplace accommodation; and (3) the rate at which accommodated workers are still working four years later, compared to similar workers who were not accommodated. We find that question order in disability surveys matters. We present suggestive evidence of priming effects that lead people to understate accommodation when first asked about very severe disabilities. We also find a sizeable fraction of workers who report they receive a workplace accommodation for a health problem but do not report work limitations per se. Our preferred estimate of the size of the accommodation‐sensitive population is 22.8 percent of all working‐age adults. We find that 47 to 58 percent of accommodation‐sensitive individuals lack accommodation and would benefit from some kind of employer accommodation to either sustain or commence work. Finally, among accommodation‐sensitive individuals, workers who were accommodated for a health problem in 2014 were 13.2 percentage points more likely to work in 2018 than those who were not accommodated in 2014.     

Big audit firms as regulatory intermediaries in transnational labor governance

Due diligence and corporate disclosure initiatives effectively expand the role of professional service firms as regulatory intermediaries in the governance of conditions of production in global supply chains. In this paper, we examine the rise of the “Big Four” audit firms in the market for services connected to transnational labor governance. Through a qualitative case study of audit firms in modern slavery governance, we argue that the Big Four's political repertoire for transnational labor governance expands beyond the roles that are typically linked to their services, and promotes an agenda that touches on key debates on what constitutes proper transnational labor governance. Big audit firms engage in a variety of informal and covert influencing practices and are shown to promote an agenda of incrementalist soft‐law labor governance, opposing concrete performance targets, binding public regulation and an independent watchdog role for civil society.     

Children in Out-of-Home Care and Adult Labor-Market Attachment: A Swedish National Register Study

Using longitudinal national register data, we investigated labor-market attachment during the years 1993–1995 in Sweden for persons aged 25–35 years who had been in out-of-home care before the age of 18 in Sweden during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. We consider whether an immigrant background has an additional influence on labor-market attachment. Compared to majority population peers, young persons who had been in foster care had shorter educations. Fewer had a strong labor-market attachment and more were dependent on social assistance. Results from multinomial regression models indicated that having been in foster care during childhood reduced the probability of high attachment to the labor-market and increased the probability of social assistance dependency, even after making adjustments for education, marital status, parenthood, domicile, and birth country. Few signs of additive effects from being both an immigrant and a former foster child are found.     

The “Rights Awakening” of Chinese Migrant Workers: Beyond the Generational Perspective

ABSTRACT

?In the spring of 2010, the strike of the Honda workers in Nanhai instigated an on-going discourse on the “rights awakening” of the “new generation of migrant workers.” Since then, much has been written about these young workers, generally described as more pro-active and ready to stand up against their employers than the older and more subservient generation. Drawing from statistical findings from two factory-gate surveys in the metal mechanics and garment sectors in Shenzhen, this paper tests two hypotheses: (a) that workers of the younger generation are more cognizant of their legal rights than older workers; (b) that the younger generation wants to work fewer hours and to enjoy life more. We argue that this popular image of the younger generation of migrant workers is one-dimensional and reductive, as it focuses only on generational differences as an explanatory factor for worker activism, while ignoring other issues such as types of industries and payment systems. In this paper, we purport that these elements play important roles in shaping the attitude of this younger generation toward their work and rights.