Next: the labor arbitration law

Last year saw a major debate on the Labor Contract law, adopted in August and in force by next year. But that is only the start of a whole set of legislation. At the beginning of this year it was becoming clear that the labor arbitration law was going to be the next big thing in how China was going to try and solve its labor disputes.
Global Labor Strategies offers a nice overview of the debate up to know and it is very clear that the current draft law will see many changes. The draft got much criticism, among others from professor Chang Kai of the Renmin University in Beijing, one of the organizers of the debate on this and other labor issues. For example the law only foresees individual cases, while most complaints are coming from groups of workers:

Recent studies show that group labor disputes have been on the rise and now represent roughly 60% of all workers involved in disputes. Professor Chang argues that the new law needs to be grounded in China's existing realities by elevating the importance of group labor disputes: "If the law remains focused on solving individual labor disputes, in 10 years we will have many problems that cannot be solved under the current legal system."