From November 2 to 3, our university, the Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School of China University of Political Science and Law and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung jointly held the Seminar on Labor Subordination in the Chinese-German Platform Economics through a combination of online and offline formats. Liu Lugang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and Chairman of the Trade Union of our university, and Professor Jiang Ying, Vice President of the China Social Law of CLS and President of the Labor Law Branch of the China Social Law of CLS, attended the forum. Nearly 40 scholars from China, Germany, Spain, France, and Japan, as well as several teachers from the Law School of our university, attended the seminar.
Deputy Secretary Liu Lugang introduced the development ideas, characteristics, and international cooperation of our university and the Law School in his speech. He pointed out that our university attaches great importance to international academic exchanges and has long-standing friendly academic exchanges and educational cooperation with many world-renowned universities, hoping to strengthen exchanges with more international universities through this forum. Regarding the topic of this seminar, he proposed that with the development of the digital economy, the protection of the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment faces new challenges. The Party and the government in China attach great importance to the construction of harmonious labor relations under the background of the digital economy. The reports to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 18th National Congress of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions have put forward clear requirements for the protection of the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment. The theme of this seminar, focusing on the labor subordination in platform economics between China and Germany, is timely. He hoped that the experts at the seminar would engage in in-depth discussions, exchange ideas, reach more consensus, propose more solutions, and jointly promote the resolution of this global major theoretical and practical issue.
The seminar was divided into four sessions: "Challenges of labor subordination theory in platform economics", "Development of labor subordination theory in platform economics", "Practical application of labor subordination theory in platform economics", and "Future prospects of labor subordination theory in platform economics". Professor Jiang Ying served as a discussant in the session, "Challenges of labor subordination theory in platform economics". Combining with the speakers' speeches, she pointed out that the development of the digital economy has posed new requirements for the development of labor law, and the labor relation subordination theory needs to respond to this development. The determination of labor relations should shift from the traditional subordination of "existence or non-existence" to "more or less", establishing necessary basic principles and flexible practical judgment factors. Professor Xiao Zhu, Executive Dean of the Law School, served as the moderator in the session, "Development of labor subordination theory in platform employment"; Professor Shen Jianfeng, Director of the Academic Committee of the Law School, gave a keynote report entitled "Qualification of Incomplete Labor Relations in New Forms of Employment and Its Legal Application" in that session. Dr. Li Na from the Law School delivered a keynote speech on the topic of "The Dilemma and Prospects of Collective Bargaining in Platform Economics" in the session of "Future prospects of labor subordination theory in platform economics".
This seminar is the second international symposium on Chinese-German labor law co-organized by our university and the Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School of China University of Political Science and Law. The seminar provided a bridge and link for exchanges and cooperation in labor law between China and foreign countries, offering international perspectives and solutions to safeguard the rights and interests of workers in platform economics, and enhancing the international influence and academic impact of our university in this professional field.