Economic Observation Network According to the CCTV News client, recently, the All China Federation of Trade Unions, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the China Enterprise Confederation, and the All China Federation of Industry and Commerce jointly issued a notice to launch the "Centralized Tender Action" for collective bargaining in 2026.

The core goal of this "concentrated offer action" is to promote the widespread development of negotiations, assist enterprises in stabilizing employment and increasing efficiency, and promote the improvement of employees' skills and income. The action will promote the widespread development of collective negotiations in established trade union enterprises, and strive to maintain a dynamic rate of over 85% for enterprises with more than 100 people signing collective contracts individually; Promote industry (regional) collective bargaining in key industrial clusters and industrial parks; Deepen the negotiation of labor rules and algorithms on the platform, and promote the normalization and institutionalization of negotiations on the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment.

• In terms of assisting enterprises in stabilizing employment and increasing efficiency

The action clearly proposes to give full play to the stabilizing role of collective bargaining in stabilizing employment and building harmony, guiding enterprises to stabilize employment positions through negotiation, safeguarding the labor rights and interests of employees, and promoting the formation of a sense of community of interests between enterprises and employees.

• Promoting EmployeesImproving SkillsIncome Increase Aspect

The notice emphasizes the role of collective bargaining as a "catalyst" in promoting income growth, promoting enterprises to improve mechanisms for determining workers' wages, ensuring reasonable growth and payment security, advancing negotiations on salary incentives for technical workers, and building a virtuous mechanism of "more workers, more skilled workers, and more innovators".

Around the focus of action, the notice requires strengthening collective bargaining among enterprises, adhering to classified guidance, and adapting to the needs of each enterprise.

• Enterprises facing difficulties in production and operationNegotiations can be focused on job rotation, rest breaks, salary adjustments, etc;
• Enterprises undergoing technological transformation and upgrading or business transformationEmphasis should be placed on negotiating job adjustments, job suitability training, and other related matters;
• Enterprises with normal production and operationThe focus will be on negotiating salary increases, rest and vacation, supplementary insurance, etc., in order to continuously improve the level of employee rights and interests.

This action will focus on promoting industry and regional collective bargaining, and clearly propose to conduct negotiations on labor quotas, minimum wages, wage increases, etc. for leading industries, key development industries, and industrial agglomeration areas. For industries with low wage levels such as security and property management, greening and sanitation, public transportation, accommodation and catering, the focus will be on negotiating the industry's minimum wage and overtime pay standards, gradually increasing the wage level of low-income positions. In addition, efforts will be made to promote consultation and mutual recognition of standards among industrial and supply chain enterprises in terms of employment norms, labor remuneration, and skill level recognition.

For new forms of employment workers, the action will deepen the negotiation of platform labor rules and algorithms, implement the requirements of documents such as the "Guidelines for Platform Labor Rules and Algorithm Negotiation (Trial)", focus on key issues such as order allocation, income deduction, working hours, and assessment rewards and punishments, with top platform enterprises as the driving force, carry out negotiations at the headquarters location, key provinces, and the entire platform, and promote secondary negotiations among platform employment cooperation enterprises to ensure the effective implementation of negotiation results.