Situation, Problems And Countermeasures Of Hearing Labor Dispute Cases

With the economic and social development in china, the legal awareness ofworkers increases, and the number of labor dispute cases grows up sharply. To improvethe legislation and legal protection for the workers, since2008, China has promulgatedthe "Labor Contract Law”, the “Labor Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Law" and“Labor Contract Law Implementation Regulations”, which provides an important basisfor the trial of labor dispute cases.In this context, this paper takes the labor cases in2008-2011in the Court ofLangfang Economic and Technological Development Zone as example, to examine thecurrent situation and trend of labor cases litigation in China. This paper mainly focuseson the following three issues: the time period limitation on bring actions, thejurisdiction of the courts and the coordination of labor arbitration and litigation. Thispaper discusses the current system of the above issues and existing problems and putsforward suggestions on how to improve the related institutions and practice.