【正文】 編號：時間：2021年x月x日書山有路勤為徑，學海無涯苦作舟頁碼：第24頁 共24頁Labor Law of the People39。s Republic of ChinaOrder of the President [1994] July 5, 1994The Labor Law of the People39。s Republic of China, adopted at the Eighth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People39。s Congress of the People39。s Republic of China on July 5, 1994, is hereby promulgated and shall e into effect as of January 1, 1995.President of the People39。s Republic of China: Jiang ZeminLabor Law of the People39。s Republic of China(Adopted at the Eighth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People39。s Congress on July 5, 1994, promulgated by Order of the President of the People39。s Republic of China and effective as of January 1, 1995)Contents Chapter I General Provisions Chapter II Promotion of Employment Chapter III Labor Contracts and Collective Contracts Chapter IV Working Hours, Rest and Vacations Chapter V Wages Chapter VI Occupational Safety and Health Chapter VII Special Protection for Female and Juvenile Workers Chapter VIII Vocational Training Chapter IX Social Insurance and Welfare Chapter X Labor Disputes Chapter XI Supervision and Inspection Chapter XII Legal Responsibility Chapter XIII Supplementary ProvisionsChapter I General ProvisionsArticle 1 This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of laborers, readjust labor relationships, establish and safeguard a labor system suited to the socialist market economy, and promote economic development and social progress.Article 2 This Law applies to all enterprises and individual economic organizations (hereinafter referred to as employing units) within the boundary of the People39。s Republic of China and laborers who form. a labor relationship therewith State organs, institutional organizations and societies as well as laborers who form. a labor contract relationship therewith shall follow this Law.Article 3 Laborers shall have the right to be employed on an equal basis, choose occupations, obtain remuneration for their labor, take rest, have holidays and leaves, obtain protection of occupational safety and health, receive training vocational skills, enjoy social insurance and welfare, and submit applications for settlement of labor disputes, and other rights relating to labor as stipulated by law. Laborers shall fulfill their labor tasks, improve their vocational skills, follow rules on occupational safety and health, and observe labor discipline and professional ethics.Article 4 The employing units shall establish and perfect rules and regulations in accordance with the law so as to ensure that laborers enjoy the right to work and fulfill labor obligations.Article 5 The State shall take various measures to promote employment, develop vocational education, lay down labor standards, regulate social ines, perfect social insurance system, coordinate labor relationship, and gradually raise the living standard of laborers.Article 6 The State shall advocate the participation of laborers in social voluntary labor and the development of their labor petitions and activities of forwarding rational proposals, encourage and protect the scientific research and technical renovation engaged by laborers, as well as their inventions and creations。 and mend and award labor models and advanced workers.Article 7 Laborers shall have the right to participate in and organize trade unions in accordance with the law. Trade unions shall represent and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of laborers, and independently conduct their activities in accordance with the law.Article 8 Laborers shall, through the assembly of staff and workersortheir congress,orother forms in accordance with the provisions of laws, rules and regulations, take part in democratic managementorconsult with the employing units on an equal footing about protection of the legitimate rights and interests of laborers.Article 9 The labor administrative department of the State Council shall be in charge of the management of labor of the whole country. The labor administrative departments of the local people39。s governments atorabove the county level shall be in charge of the management of labor in the administrative areas under their respective jurisdiction.Chapter II Promotion of EmploymentArticle 10 The State shall create conditions for employment and increase opportunities for employment by means of the promotion of economic and social development. The State shall encourage enterprises, institutional organizations, and societies to initiate industriesorexpand businesses for the increase of employment within the scope of the stipulations of laws, and administrative rules and regulations. The State shall support laborers to get jobs by organizing themselves on a voluntary basisorby engaging in individual businesses.Article 11 Local people39。s governments at various levels shall take measures to develop various kinds of job—introduction agencies and provide employment services.Article 12 Laborers shall not be discriminated against in employment, regardless of their ethnic munity, race,orreligious belief.Article 13 Females shall enjoy equal rights as males in employment. It shall not be allowed, in the recruitment of staff and workers, to use as a pretext for excluding females form. employmentorto raise recruitment standards for the females, except for the types of workorposts that are not suitable for females as stipulated by the State.Article 14 Where there are special stipulations in laws, rules and regulations on the employment of the disabled, the personnel of national minorities, and demobilized army men, such special stipulations shall apply.Article 15 No employing units shall be allowed to recruit juveniles under the age of 16. Units of literature and art, physical culture and sport, and special arts and crafts that need to recruit juveni