The Responsibility To Labor By Multinational Corporation In China

This paper mainly studies the implementation issues of code of conduct and the responsibility to labor by multinational corporations in China. First of all, this paper introduces the Origin and Development of code conduct, mainly including five stages: code conduct made by multinational corporations, developed by industry, advocated by trade union, developed by NGO and the stage of international certification——SA8000.Then, this paper elaborates the scope of social responsibility multinational corporations should fulfill in china, including the responsibility to labor, to shareholder, to consumer, to the government, and so on. Chapter three clarifies the International Code of Conduct and the Labor Law should be followed by multinational corporations, especially introduces the content of SA8000. To protect the rights of labor, the multinational corporations investing in China should firstly comply with the "Labor Law". Chapter four points out the standard multinational corporations should comply with by comparing Labor Law with SA8000. Chapter five introduces the basic situation of labor protection by multinational corporations, especially emphasizes the aspect of violating the rights and interests of labor in China by satisfying and analyzing the top 100 multinational corporations in the "world's top 500" who fulfilled the social responsibility. According what has been analyzed above, chapter six explains the root causes including plight of content rationality, plight of voluntary, plight of implementation, plight of monitoring, from the points of multinational corporations, manufacturers, the Government and the workers themselves. Then, proposes target-oriented measures to protect the labor rights better: First, improving national and international legislation to "the law", which is the basic premise; second is to standardize the certification of labor protection, which is the key; Third, we should perfect the supervision mechanism and enhance supervision, this is a powerful guarantee; fourth, multinational corporations need to make efforts. Last chapter introduces two cases, Shell "practice what they preach" and NIKE "Sweetshops", which examples the merits and weaknesses in fulfilling labor law by multinational corporations.