The Ministry of Labor
and Social Security (MOLSS) of the People’s Republic
of China was established in March 1998 on the basis of the previous
Ministry of Labor. The Ministry of Labor and Social Security
of the People’s Republic of China was established in March 1998
on the basis of the former Ministry of Labor, being an organ
directly under the State Council, it is in charge of the administration
of national labor and social security undertakings, mainly including
labor force management, labor relationship readjustment, various
items of social insurance management and legal construction
of labor and social security. Among them, the social insurance
is merged by social insurance for urban employees administered
by the former Ministry of Labor, social insurance for government
organ the institutions administered by the Ministry of Personnel,
the rural social insurance administered by the Ministry of Civil
Affairs, the medical insurance administered by the Ministry
of Public Health as well as social insurance pooling for various
sectors and departments.
The MOLSS is composed of the following 13 functional departments:
General Office, Department of Legal Affairs, Department of Planning
and Finance, Department of Training and Employment, Department
of Labor and Wages, Department of Pension Insurance, Department
of Unemployment Insurance, Department of Medical Insurance,Department
of Work Injury Insurance, Department of Rural Social Insurance,
Department of Social Insurance Fund Supervision, Department
of International Cooperation and Department of Personnel and
Education.
Meanwhile, the MOLSS has the following institutions: The
Social Insurance
Administration, Information Center, International Exchanges
and Services Center, Publicity Center, China Labor and Social
Security Science Academy, Tian Jin Occupational and Skill
Teachers’ College, China Employment Training Technical Instruction
Center, Education and Training Center, China Labor and Social
Security Publishing House, China Labor and Social Security
News, Labor and Personnel College and Jiu Jiang Training Center.
The MOLSS administers the following organizations: China Labor
Society, China Social Insurance Association, China Occupational
Education and Training Association, China Labor Service Enterprise
Association etc.
The major responsibilities of MOLSS are:
 1.Draft
the basic guidelines and policies for Labor and social insurance,
and the general program for reforming the social insurance system;
formulate labor and social insurance development program and
annual working plan, and organize the implementation thereof.
2.Draft
the laws and regulations, administrative rules as well as basic
standards concerning labor and social insurance and organize
the implementation, supervision and inspection thereof; draft
management rules concerning labor and social insurance legislation
and policy service and consultancy agencies; exercise the labor
and social insurance supervision and inspection authorities
on behalf of the State, formulate working norms on labor and
social insurance supervision and inspection, and supervise local
labor and social insurance supervision and inspection agencies.
3.Draft
the basic policies and measures to promote employment in urban
and rural areas; work out the development program for the labor
market, organize the building and improving of employment services
system; draft the program and policies with regard to the lay-off
and redeployment of the retrenched workers from the SOEs, their
basic subsistence guarantee and reemployment, organize the implementation
of reemployment program, and draft the management rules concerning
job agencies; work out the policies and measures concerning
the development and employment of surplus rural labor as well
as orderly interregional migration of rural labor and organize
the implementation thereof; draft the management policies for
the employment of alien workers in P.R. China and overseas employment
of domestic workers in accordance with the division of duties;
draft the management rules on relevant agencies which operate
the business of selecting and dispatching Chinese employees
for the representative offices or agencies of foreign enterprises
in China, and formulate the accreditation methods for foreign
agencies in China engaged in labor recruitment intermediary,
consultancy and training activities.
4.
Organize the drafting of occupational classification and national
vocational skill standards, organize the formulation and promulgation
of relevant sectoral vocational skill standards; establish vocational
qualification certificate system, draft the vocational skill
accreditation policies; draft the development program and management
rules for technical workers’ schools in accordance with the
national guidelines and policies concerning education undertaking;
formulate programs and policies concerning on-the-job training
for enterprise workers, reemployment training for the unemployed
and the laid-off workers of SOEs, as well as that concerning
employment training centers and the vocational training institutions
run by the social forces; draft the rules, measures and policies
concerning the training and awarding of vocationally skilled
personnel as well as making rules, policies and measures o vocational
skill competitions; draft the implementation measures for labor
preparation system; guide the quality upgrading of teaching
staff for technical workers’ schools and vocational training
institutions; work out the curriculum development program for
technical workers’ schools and vocational training as well as
the corresponding evaluation and accreditation system.
5.Formulate
the fundamental principle for labor relations adjustment and
the enforcement regulations on labor contract and collective
contract system; establish the labor dispute settlement system
and draft labor arbitration regulation; verify and issue the
manning quota the enterprises; work out the system for enterprise
employees’ working time, rest, vocation as well as special labor
protection policies for female workers and adolescent workers;
take charge of policy placement and deployment of labor; participate
in the evaluation and selection of national enterprise model
workers.
6.Draft
the macro-policies and measures concerning the wages of enterprise
employees; work out enterprise wage guidelines and wage income
regulatory policies for industrial sectors; draft the income
distribution policies for managers of the SOEs; verify the total
payroll and the wage standard of principle managers within the
enterprises directly under the central government.
7.
Formulate the basic policies and standards concerning the pension
insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, employment
injury insurance as well as maternity insurance and organize
the implementation, supervision and inspection thereof.
8.Draft
policies concerning the collection, payment, management and
operation of social insurance funds; verify the budget and final
accounts of social insurance funds; implement administrative
supervision on the management of social insurance funds; formulate
the management rules for social insurance management agencies
and the qualification accreditation standards for fund management
agencies; work out the building program for social insurance
service system and organize the implementation thereof;
9.Draft
policies concerning the supplementary old-age and supplementary
medical insurance in government organizations, institutions
and enterprises; draft certification standards concerning the
qualification of agencies undertaking supplementary insurance;
certify the qualification of the relevant agencies which undertake
the business of supplementary insurance.
10.
Take charge of statistical and information work concerning national
labor and social insurance and the organization of labor and
social insurance information network construction; regularly
publicize the statistical bulletins, statistical information
and data concerning labor and social insurance and forecast
the development trends.
11.Organize
the scientific and technological research I the field of labor
and social insurance and the dissemination, application of the
results; take charge of the standardization in the field of
labor and social insurance.
12.
Take charge of international exchanges and cooperation in the
field of labor and social insurance; participate in the activities
and programs of the ILO and other relevant international organizations
on behalf of the Chinese government; administer the multilateral
and bilateral exchanges and cooperation projects and programs
in the field of labor and social security involving governments,
non-government organizations and international economic assistance
agencies; administer international technical cooperation and
personnel exchanges in the field of labor and social security;
review and ratify International Labor Convention and Recommendations;
13.
Undertake other assignments by the State Council. |
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