Chương 2 Nghị định 196-CP: Nội dung thoả ước lao động tập thể

Chapter II

CONTENT OF THE COLLECTIVE ABOR BARGAIN

Article 2.-

1. The main content of the collective labor bargain stipulated in Item 2, Article 46 of the Labor Code includes:

a) Job and job security: the measures for job security; the type of labor contracts for each category of labor or jobs; the circumstances for termination of labor contracts; the allowances for job resignation, severance and suspension; the upgrading of professional skills, the retraining in case of technological changes or production reorganization; the principles and time for temporary assignment of laborers to other jobs.

b) The work and rest time: the provisions on the length of work time during a day and a week; the arrangement of work shifts; the break time suitable for each category of profession and work; the weekly day-off and holiday; the annual leave, including the traveling time; the leave on personal affairs; the principles on and cases of requested overtime work.

c) The salary, salary-indexing allowances and bonuses: the base or average salary (monthly or daily or hourly); the salary scale at the enterprise; the measures to ensure real income and the indexing measures for salaries in face of fluctuating market prices; the principles of salary payment (by time, products or piece-work); the principles for designing and adjusting salaries; the principles and conditions for salary raises; the types of salary-indexing allowances; the time for monthly salary payment; the payment of annual leave and related expenses; the salary for overtime work; the bonuses (irregular, monthly, year-end, high-quality reward, profit reward) and their principles (a specific regulation may be attached).

d) Labor quotas: the principles and methods for designing the quotas, their trial application, formalization and adjustment; the types of quotas for different types of labor; the average and advanced quotas applied in the enterprises; the measures to apply to cases of non-fulfillment of the quotas; the principles for piece-work on labor and materials (if any).

e) Labor safety and hygiene: the measures to ensure labor safety and hygiene; the standards for and the supply of labor-safety instruments; the regimes of in-kind compensation; the measures to improve working conditions; the compensation for labor accidents and occupational diseases (a specific regulation may be attached).

f) Social securities: the provisions on the responsibility and interests of the employer and the laborers in contributing, collecting and paying social insurances.

2. Apart from the said contents, the concerned parties may bargain on other contents, such as the modalities for settlement of labor disputes; mid-shift meals; collective welfare; allowances for funerals and marriages, etc.