On Trend Of International Protection For Labor's Rights: Angle Of View From Labor Standards

"With the economic globalization and integration,the commercial relationship among countries has extended to man's category from goods exchanging" The focus of international competing has turned to the social field from the economical field,which can be found out as a sign from labor standard and some other issues have come into the international community's attention. In the past few decades,the debates on if the labor standards should be brought into GATT / WTO legal framework have never stopped between the developed counties and the developing countries. As one of the members of WTO,China nowadays has become a great commercial country with supreme labor number and the greatest labor market in the world Since the labor standards issue cannot be slided over, China is facing the heaviest pressure for labor's rights protection. This paper,titled with "On Trend of the International Protection For Labor's Rights:From Labor Standards", gives full and accurate elaboration, analysis and demonstration on the international protection trend,which is based on academic and empirical research,and points out the economic globalization cannot but lead to the internationalization of labor standards.Facing this trend,China cannot continue to discuss if to accept it or not passively,but should take an active part in the enactment of the international rules and standards,which can promote and underline China's status establishment as a great country. On this basement,this paper gives China's coping strategy and concrete measures targeting the gap between our legislation,social practice and international labor standards. The writer hopes that this paper can arouse more people at home to think much of and study this issue,so as to give more favorable public opinion for China's better integrating with the world market.This paper is divided into five parts: Part one gives a summarization of labor's rights. Section I probes into the connotation, character and basic features of labor's rights. Section II analyzes the basic types and major content of labor's rights.Section III analyzes the relationship between labor standards and labor's rights.Part two analyzes the situation of international globalization for labor's rights protection. Section I gives a brief retrospection of the historical origin of labor issue and emergence of labor standards.Section II analyzes the international globalization of labor standards.Section III analyzes the international development of corporate social responsibility movement.Part three gives a legal analysis on the international protection for labor's rights. Section I analyzes the legal sources of labor standards. Section II gives a sketch of the internationalization of labor legislation and its legal evaluation. Section III discusses the future tend of labor standards and WTO.Part four gives a comparison between the present situation of our domestic protection and the international labor standards. Section I gives a sketch of the present situation of our protection for labor's rights. Section II gives a concrete and comprehensive comparison, which focus on five aspects-free labor association, collective negotiation, anti-discrimination against employment, forced labor and child labor protection. Section III gives a comparative evaluation on the gap between our domestic labor law and the international labor standards.Part five analyzes the revelation we can get from the international protection trend for labor's rights,and put forward China's coping strategy. Section I analyzes the impact and our coping strategy. Section II put forward the concrete measures in legal system. Section III elaborates our coping measures outside legal system.