Qingdao City, Handling of Labour Disputes Regulations

Promulgated: July 27 2002
Effective: September 1 2002

Main contents: The Regulations set forth the procedures for handling of labour disputes through mediation and arbitration in Qingdao City. The Regulations apply to disputes that arise between labourers and enterprises, non-enterprise entities run by local people and individual economic organizations (Article 2). The Regulations detail the procedures for establishing mediation and arbitration committees, including the jurisdiction of those committees over city districts (Part Two). The city labour dispute arbitration committee will hear labour disputes that arise within foreign-invested enterprises and Taiwan and Hong Kong enterprises (Article 12). Part Three details who may attend mediation and arbitration proceedings in a representative capacity. It also specifies who will be the party of the case in the case of merger, division or bankruptcy (Article 16). Parts Four and Five detail the procedures for mediation and arbitration proceedings. Article 36 states that in the case that there is no basic protection for the livelihood of the labourer or the labourer requires emergency medical care that should be provided by the employer, partial awards may be granted to order immediate payment by the employer.
Related legislation: PRC Labour Law, Jul 5 1994, CLP 1994 No.7 p21 and PRC Handling of Enterprise Labour Disputes Regulations, Jul 6 1993, CLP 1993 No.8 p41