Significance and Function of Collective Contract (1) For laborers, the collective contract system is a legal and effective means to safeguard their own labor rights and interests. The collective contract stipulates some basic rights and benefits that all employees of the enterprise should enjoy. Since the enterprise has agreed to these rights and interests through consultation, it must be implemented. If the enterprise cannot execute the contract, it constitutes a breach of contract and all the labor of the enterprise.
(1) For workers, the system is a legal and effective means to safeguard their own labor rights and interests. The collective contract stipulates some basic rights and interests that all employees of the enterprise should enjoy. In other words, since the enterprise has agreed to these rights and interests of employees through consultation, it must be implemented. If the enterprise fails to perform the contract, it will constitute a breach of contract, and all employees of the enterprise will protest. The enterprise may not take the protest of individual workers to heart, but all the workers in the enterprise protest, so the enterprise should consider it carefully.
(2) As far as the government is concerned, the collective contract system recognizes the practice of independent settlement of labor disputes between employers and employees in the form of law, which reduces the pressure on the government and helps to maintain the stability of labor relations and social harmony.
(3) For employers or employees, the collective contract system is conducive to reducing labor management costs. Many enterprises are reluctant to set up workers' trade unions, thinking that trade unions represent the interests of workers and will confront enterprises. But in fact, the existence of trade unions will not pose a threat to the interests of enterprises.
Case A fierce conflict occurred between employees of an enterprise and the enterprise because of rights and interests, and finally hundreds of employees went on strike. In order to quell the strike, local government departments also sent relevant personnel to coordinate the relationship between enterprises and employees. The government official said to the main person in charge of the enterprise, "gather the leaders of the enterprise, have a meeting with the staff representatives, put all the problems on the table, and we will help you coordinate."
The leaders of enterprises naturally have no problem and will soon gather in the conference room. So the government official said to the employees of the enterprise: "Now you have to choose five employee representatives and sit with the leaders of the enterprise for a meeting. This meeting will be hosted by us and we will discuss how to solve the problem together. " However, since there is no trade union in the enterprise, who are the staff representatives and how to elect them? Business leaders are also very anxious. Without employee representatives, it is impossible to sit down and discuss, which means that the strike of employees will continue and the losses faced by enterprises will be very serious. So the business leader said to the employees, "You choose the employee representatives so that we can discuss how to solve the problem." The worker said, "Each of us only represents ourselves. If we want to discuss problems, we should talk to each other one by one. "
Faced with this situation, what should enterprises do? If we negotiate with employees one by one, the cost of negotiation is really too high. At this time, enterprises should understand the role of trade unions.
Some enterprises think that the purpose of trade unions and collective contracts is to protect the interests of employees, and the rights and interests of enterprises are bound to be restricted, so they have resistance to trade unions and collective contracts. However, if the enterprise cannot protect the basic rights and interests of employees, even if the enterprise does not have such an organization as a trade union, employees will spontaneously protest. Therefore, although trade union organizations and collective contracts protect the rights and interests of employees, they are not contradictory to the interests of enterprises, and enterprises will greatly reduce the negotiation cost when faced with special circumstances such as employee strikes and protests.