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The controversy and ethical significance of new labor contract law in China
Huizhu, Gao
Huizhu, Gao
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The article is on the labor dispute about Chinese New “Labor Contract Law” in 2007. Through this case, the article expounds the important significance of ethics, that is, ethical responsibility of government, enterprises and unions. As for the government, the important responsibility is to protect legitimate rights of free administration of enterprises and to guarantee labor rights. However, in present legal system for economy, employees are still in a weak position, compared with the employers. Therefore, it is a moral responsibility that the law promulgated by governments should show more advantages for vulnerable groups. If not regarded as the carrier of the rights, man can’t get respect, which is the true reason why labor rights must get guarantee by law. The concept of fundamental rights enables us to evaluate the enterprise’s activities in the moral sense. As for ethical responsibilities of enterprises, It’s wrong to get it by improper ways. We can accept the interests which meet justice, but must refuse that which violate justice. The priority of contemporary Chinese enterprises operators is to support their own inner world with the healthy moral spirit, get a reasonable ethics motivation for their own business activities of gaining profits, and establish a holy guiding principle of value which should be the unity of justice and interest. The controversy of new labor contract law makes the Chinese entrepreneurs clear about their own moral responsibility once again. As for the ethical responsibilities of labor unions, safeguarding rights is its primary task. Therefore, undoubtedly, the controversy on the new "Labor Contract Law" will promote China's business and labor class to raise ethical awareness of the economic ethics and keep moral rights. It will be part of those Chinese employers and employees throw themselves into economic globalization in the spirit.
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