The Model of the State Digital Platform on Labor Contracts in China

Abstract

The digitalization of the economy provides additional opportunities for businesses to ensure their competitiveness, increase of the production of goods, works, services, and their export. However, in this case, risks and threats arise for other parameters of macroeconomic equilibrium, in particular, for the labor market. Thus, digitalization not only creates risks for jobs, as the replacement of human labor with capital within Industry 4.0 ensures the competitiveness of businesses but also forces workers to accept significantly worse working conditions. In 2021 in our study we noted the risks and threats to the labor market due to digitalization. In this article, we will describe possible solutions that can be implemented by state in the regulation of the labor market at the present stage of economic development and digitalization. The purpose of the article is to create an opportunity to establish a state digital platform on labor contracts as a basis for solving the following cases: compliance with the rules for drawing up labor contracts and fulfilling their conditions; compliance of online platforms with working hours; activation of the trade union movement, suppression of violations of the rights to meetings of trade unions on Internet platforms; establishment of the minimum wage and provision of guarantees for its payment to employees of Internet platforms; extension of the social security system to workers employed on Internet platforms (health, social and pension insurance, vacation pay). As a result, the research substantiates a necessity of creating the model of the state digital platform on labor contracts.