The major duties of the Shanghai Labor and Social Security Bureau are as follows:

I. To implement the guidelines and policies of the central government and this Municipality with respect to labor and social security, to formulate the municipality’s development planning of labor and social security undertaking, and organize the implementation.

II. To organize the implementation of the laws and regulations of the State and this Municipality, to draw up the rules and regulations related to labor and social security of this Municipality, formulate the normal policies and organize the implementation, supervision and inspection of the above regulations, rules and policies; to be responsible for implementing the supervision of the acts in violation of the laws and regulations with respect to labor and social security.

III. To manage comprehensively labor force resource and employment work. To formulate the employment promotion planning and labor force market planning for the near future and medium- and long-term; to organize the establishment and improvement of employment service system; to be responsible for comprehensive management of employment of labor force from home and abroad in this Municipality and relevant intermediate organizations, draw up the relevant policies and measures, and organize the implementation.

IV. To manage comprehensively the vocational training of this Municipality; to be responsible for management of work classification, work standard and identification of work qualification; to be responsible for management of different kinds of vocational training institutions and affirmation and issuance of the relevant vocational qualification certificates.

V. To manage comprehensively the adjustment of labor relationship in this Municipality; be responsible for management of labor protection and enterprise welfare in this Municipality; to normalize the municipality’s procedures for labor contract system, collective consultation and collective contracts, and coordinate and direct; to handle labor disputes in accordance with laws and regulations, and formulate the labor disputes settlement system of this municipality and the rules of labor arbitration, and organize the implementation.

VI. To be responsible for planning and management of the network of the labor and social security socialization service of this Municipality; to formulate the norms of network service; to release the relevant information and forecast report of labor and social security works to provide basis for making the relevant policies.

VII. To be responsible for management of allocation of wage income of enterprises in this Municipality; to draw up and determine the policies of reform of enterprises wage allocation system and adjustment of wage gross; to draw up and determine the adjustment measure for trade wage level and wage allocation policy of state-owned enterprises operators; formulate the lowest wage standard of enterprises, and normalized the acts of wage payment of enterprises.

VIII. To be responsible for management of all kinds of labor and social security funds of this Municipality, and organize the implementation; to establish and improve all the social security systems, to draw up and determine the relevant policies and measures, and organize the implementation.

IX. To undertake other matters assigned by the Municipal Government.