To Improve the Research on Labor Policies in Transition

The labor policies that the thesis is to expound is the social policies made for workers or labor stratum. Under the background of economic transition, introducing the concept of labor policies is not only because labors have become a relatively dependent stratum, but also because it has a very significant practical meaning to understand the connotation of reform of economic system and structural readjustment in China. This thesis analyzes the deficiency of Chinese labor policies in protecting labors' rights and interests in transition, for example, there are still gaps in the system of Labor Contract in dealing with village and township enterprises and migrant worker going into towns; the improvement of collective negotiation system need reforms in organizational regimes of trade unions and amplification of means to negotiate; supervisory system over labor cannot effectively deterrent and contain the illegal actions by employing units; there are many shortcomings badly needed to be reformed in the design of labor system of dealing with labor disputes. The thesis also points out that the vital issue for the deficiency in labor policies is that labor policies are subordinate to and serve the efficiency preferred economic growth policies and therefore the unity between equality and efficiency cannot be exposed. Additionally, the thesis proposes several policy-related suggestions on how to improve labor policies in the guideline of scientific outlook of development.