How To Promote Wage Consultation For Small And Medium Sized Enterprises

Distinguished guest:

Chang Kai, director of the Institute of labor relations, Renmin University of China

Professor Gao Dahui, theoretical Institute of Beijing Federation of Trade Unions Cadre Management College

Tang Jun, researcher of social policy research, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Reporter: from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises, which aspects should be involved in the wage consultation system?

Gao Da Hui: in wages In the process of collective consultation, there are several aspects for enterprises: one is the annual wage guidance line, the two is the economic efficiency of enterprises, and the three is the market price. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises should coordinate their own actual situation from these three aspects and take into consideration the whole industry's economic growth trend. Negotiations on collective bargaining system are being carried out.

The collective wage negotiation system can proceed from two aspects. One is the collective wage consultation from the whole industry, and the industry has direct guidance to enterprises. It starts with the whole industry and covers a wide range. The other is starting from the enterprise and negotiating in a single enterprise. The enterprise can act as a reference basis for the wage Guidance standard of the industry, which is more specific and targeted than the guidance effect of the nature of the government.

middle-sized and small enterprise Wage negotiation system should be negotiated according to its own economic benefits. Enterprises can refer to the price standard of products in the market, and more importantly, combine the economic benefits of enterprises and enterprises to set up wage standards. This is also beneficial to the business side and to the workers, so as to safeguard the interests of the two sides.

Tang Jun: in the process of implementing collective contract and collective wage consultation system, small and medium-sized enterprises with small scale and small number of workers have signed collective wage consultation on regional and industrial sectors through regional collective wage negotiations. According to the situation of piecework wage implemented by clothing and luggage enterprises, it is feasible to stipulate the piece rate standard and the overtime wage standard.

Reporter: what kind of role does the trade union play in the wage consultation system of small and medium-sized enterprises?

Gao Da Hui: from wages consult In the course of the investigation, we also found that the wage consultation work carried out by all union organizations is better. The increase in wages is larger than that in the absence of trade unions. From the point of view of safeguarding the rights and interests of workers, the corresponding rights protection of the trade union organizations or the demands of the employees also correspondingly do more forcefully. Therefore, SMEs should also work hard to organize the establishment of trade unions in order to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers. From the point of view of the wage consultation system, the normal procedure should be that the workers negotiate the wage consultation system with the trade union first, then the trade union organization represents the worker and the owner of the enterprise negotiations. If there is no union, even if a few representatives are chosen, the difficulty is much greater than that of a trade union. And it is difficult to practice.

Reporter: in the wage consultation system, which problems should we pay more attention to?

Chang Kai: we should admit that the implementation of collective wage negotiations has been successful for many years, and it is a guarantee. Worker The right to play a positive role, especially in raising the wages of workers. However, it is more difficult to promote wage consultation in small and medium-sized enterprises. In my opinion, the basic premise for SMEs to advance the wage consultation system is to establish trade unions, and to have unions that represent workers to negotiate.

Wage negotiation is actually not only about consulting wages, but also concerning the implementation of the basic rights of the whole labor relations, such as the right to organize, negotiate and strike, that is, the so-called "labor three rights" in the labor law. The issue of labor relations, wages and wage negotiation involves the system of labor relations and how to adjust the policy. If these problems are not solved, the effect of wage negotiation will be given a lot of discount.

In some provinces such as Zhejiang and Jiangsu, the wages of some textile and garment enterprises are no longer priced unilaterally by the owners of enterprises, but by the workers, owners and trade unions. For this wage negotiation system, how do people in the textile and apparel industry view this?