[Editorial Review of Workers' Daily]

Original title: Exploring a new way to standardize management and safeguarding the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms

Lai Zhikai, commentator of Workers Daily - China Industrial Network

The joint introduction of management norms across departments is conducive to promoting the standardization of labor management in new forms of employment and providing positive practical experience for improving the protection system of workers' rights and interests in new forms of employment. Through integration, the system norms with universal adaptability and taking into account the promotion of the development of emerging industries and the standardized management of industries are gradually formed, This is undoubtedly of positive practical significance for the construction of harmonious labor relations.

According to the report of the Workers' Daily on April 11, the group standard of the "Regulations on the Protection of Labor Rights and Interests of Express Workers", jointly drafted and formulated by the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, the Beijing Federation of Work Safety and the Beijing Express Association, was officially released recently. This standard stipulates the labor rights protection requirements in terms of labor employment, safety protection, occupational health, dispute resolution, etc., provides comprehensive reference and guidance for express enterprises to protect the rights and interests of employees, and provides more fair and reasonable labor conditions for express industry practitioners.

The release of this management standard is an innovative measure to explore cross sectoral comprehensive supervision services in the field of protecting the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment, and to explore a new path for the standardized management of protecting the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment.

At present, the prominent problems in the field of workers' rights and interests protection in the new employment form are mainly reflected in the uncertainty of the labor relationship between platform enterprises and workers, the non-standard and imperfect basic labor standards, and the weakness of workers' social security. This management specification aims at practical problems, and makes operational specifications from determining relevant standards, clarifying labor conditions, and strengthening mechanism guarantee. Before the relevant laws and regulations at the national level were issued, such guiding local norms provided a reference standard for the users' autonomy of platform enterprises and established a code of conduct, which is another practical sample for safeguarding the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms.

To promote the development of new forms of employment and protect the legitimate rights and interests of practitioners, the formulation of relevant management norms should not only be conducive to giving play to the advantages of emerging industries, but also provide binding, fair and reasonable management rules for platform enterprises that are easy to use uniformly. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other eight departments have established the recognition standards and basic codes of conduct for labor relations in the Guiding Opinions on Safeguarding the Labor Security Rights and Interests of Workers in New Employment Forms, "two guidelines and one guide" (Guide to Rest and Labor Remuneration Rights and Interests Protection of Workers in New Employment Forms, and Guide to Publicity of Labor Rules for Workers in New Employment Forms The Guide to Safeguarding the Rights and Interests of Workers in New Employment Forms) has been further refined. Its core meaning is to urge platform enterprises to fulfill their social responsibilities, fully recognize the high relevance of the interests of workers and enterprises, establish a management mechanism with temperature and sustainable development internally, prevent platform enterprises from "shedding burdens" in management, and gradually build a system of relatively balanced rights and obligations between labor relations parties. The above group standards for management norms led by the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions are specific actions to implement the "two guidelines and one guide".

The implementation of relevant principled institutional norms into practice is a key link to protect the rights and interests of workers in the new form of employment. At present, relevant exploration is being actively promoted everywhere. For example, the identification conditions of the "trichotomy" of labor relations in the new employment form have gradually refined and formed some basic standards through judicial and labor arbitration practices; The pilot project of occupational injury protection for workers in new forms of employment continued to expand; The basic labor standards for workers in the new employment form have made new breakthroughs in labor conditions, rest and vacation, labor remuneration, occupational safety protection, etc; Unilateral formulation of labor rules by platform enterprises is restrained to some extent, and the abuse of algorithm control is significantly reduced; We have organized workers in new forms of employment to join the Association, and achieved remarkable results in strengthening the protection of rights and interests through collective negotiation and signing collective contracts; By building a "one-stop" mediation mechanism, we will strengthen the diversified solution of labor disputes, and constantly improve the rights protection mechanism.

The joint introduction of management norms across departments is conducive to promoting the standardization of labor management in new forms of employment and providing positive practical experience for improving the protection system of workers' rights and interests in new forms of employment. Through integration, the system norms with universal adaptability and taking into account the promotion of the development of emerging industries and the standardized management of industries are gradually formed, This is undoubtedly of positive practical significance for the construction of harmonious labor relations.

It is expected that more pioneering practical explorations will continue to emerge to consolidate the foundation for the protection of workers' rights and interests in new forms of employment, and promote the harmonious and stable development of labor relations in related industries.