The Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Zhejiang Provincial Government have jointly promulgated a document promoting collective wage negotiations.
They aim to ensure that 70% of all enterprises and 100% of state-owned and collective enterprises adopt the system by the end of 2010.
The document mandates that enterprises facilitate employees — and especially employee representatives — in participating in democratic corporate management and collective wage negotiations. A draft collective wage agreement should be submitted to the local labor security department after it has been approved by the employees' conference.
The relevant departments should strengthen research on average wages, enterprise labor costs and the consumer price index to determine a minimum wage standard, corporate and industrial wage guidelines, labor market price guides and other systems for the promotion of collective wage negotiations.
According to the document enterprises that already have trade unions should adopt the collective wage negotiation system across the board before the end of 2009; while those that have not should promote regional collective wage negotiations.
