In April 2017 a joint report entitled ‘Points of view on bolstering labor dispute and personnel related mediation and arbitration’ by the Ministry for Human Resources and Social Security, and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) was presented and contains a certain number of proposals to tackle the significant rise in individual labor disputes.
The current mediation system that was modified in December 2007, intends for disputes between an employer and an employee to be resolved initially on the basis of dialogue and failing that via mediation efforts (by a internal company mediation committee or and external service), or indeed then via arbitration that cannot extend beyond sixty days, the outcome of which can then be appealed in the courts. However given a significant rise in the number of disputes +10.4% in 2015 (1.721 million case
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