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Comments on the Second Deliberated Draft Labor Contract Law of the PRC 对《中华人民共和国劳动合同法》草案第二次审议稿的意见和建议 The American Chamber of Commerce in the People’s Republic of China and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai respectfully submit the following comments and suggestions on the Second Deliberated Draft Labor Contract Law of the PRC (the Second Draft), as submitted by the Law Committee of the National Peoples Congress (NPC). We fully applaud the NPCs solicitation of public comments on the First Draft of the Labor Contract Law and the high attention paid to these comments as reflected to varying extent in the changes made in the Second Draft. We appreciate this opportunity to share our views on the Second Draft. 中国美国商会和上海美国商会谨向全国人民代表大会(下称“全国人大”)法律委员 会，就2006 年 12 月提交的《中华人民共和国劳动合同法草案》(第二次审议稿)(下 称“第二次审议稿”)呈交如下意见和建议。我们非常赞赏全国人大就《劳动合同法 草案》(第一次审议稿)征求公众意见并予以高度关注的举措，且这些意见在第二次 审议稿的修改中均得到不同程度的采纳。同时，我们也非常感谢贵委的信任，让我 们就第二次审议稿表达自己的看法。 Many American companies have been among the leaders in the implementation of workplace safety and employment practices designed to empower, inform, and protect their employees in China We fully support the Chinese government’s goals of enacting this law, namely clarifying the legal rights and responsibilities of employers, employees, and labor unions and of strengthening the legal mechanisms for uniform protection of employees’ rights. We recognize that it is necessary to modify the laws and regulations protecting the rights of employees due to the development of China’s economy. At the same time, we believe that such efforts should be accompanied by increased efforts by the authorities to enforce existing rights of employees in both local and foreign-invested enterprises. Even well-drafted and well-intended new measures may not effectively assist the most vulnerable employees without additional resources and