Improve high-quality services and implement labor rights protection, Labour Bureau conducts workshop for mediators and mediation committees
In order to implement Mayor Huang Weizhe's "Hope Home", the Tainan City Government Labor Bureau has enhanced the ability and skills of labor dispute mediators to handle disputes in practice, enhanced their professional knowledge, and provided higher-quality services for both labor and management to implement labor rights and interests. As a guarantee, a seminar for mediators and mediation committees is specially planned. Today (8th), more than 50 mediators, mediation committee members, presidents and supervisors of various municipal federations of trade unions attended the first day of the course at Shanhua Brewery.
Director Wang Xinji of the Labor Bureau stated that from January to December 2011, the Labor Bureau accepted a total of 1,511 labor dispute cases, 1,084 cases were established through mediation, and 427 cases were not established through mediation, with a establishment rate of 71.7%. Director Wang Xinji especially thanked the mediators and mediators for their enthusiastic service, mediating labor disputes from a neutral standpoint, laborers trust the Labor Bureau to resolve labor disputes quickly and effectively, and the mediators play a central role in mediation.
This workshop is divided into 2 days. Today (8th), the director of the Bureau of Labor Insurance, Tainan City Second Office, Lin Guanli, and the executive director of the New Taipei City Labor-Management Mediation Association, Lin Minxiong, are invited to give lectures. The course content includes:
"Labor Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection Law Highlights and Related Case Sharing", and "Labor Dispute Mediation Skills and Promotion of Arbitration Mechanism".
Lecturer Lin Guanluo explained to the participants that in order to improve the protection of the rights and interests of workers with occupational accidents and their families, the government has taken the existing occupational accident insurance regulations out of the "Labor Insurance Regulations" in the form of a special law. In addition to improving various payment guarantees, and integrating the provisions of the "Occupational Accident Labor Protection Law", the "Occupational Accident Insurance and Protection Law" was promulgated on April 30, 2011, and came into force on May 1, 111. By strengthening Occupational disaster prevention mechanism, and actively assist occupational disaster workers to rebuild and return to the workplace, so that front-line workers can obtain the most complete job security protection, and use practical cases to illustrate the Bureau of Labor Insurance's approval of occupational disasters, injuries and disability payments . In addition, lecturer Lin Minxiong, executive director, explained that "mediation" and "arbitration" stipulated in the Labor-Management Dispute Settlement Law are both part of the dispute resolution mechanism outside litigation. It is an industry that prohibits or restricts strikes, and other industries must agree to apply for both parties. However, if an arbitration judgment is made, it has the same effect as a court judgment. Reconciliation during the procedure is also equivalent to the establishment of mediation. The role of the company and how it facilitated the labor and management to apply to the competent authority for labor dispute arbitration after the mediation failed. After the meeting, a comprehensive symposium was held for two-way communication. All the participants expressed that they had learned a lot and the seminar was a success.