A Comparative of Social Security for Non-Standard Employed Persons in China and the United Kingdom
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Flexible working; social security; social policy.Abstract
The different protections for flexible employment in the UK and the different forms and tendencies of flexible employment in China have resulted in different policies and forms of tendency. The essay focuses on comparing the social security of flexibly employed people and is divided into two parts to examine the differences. The first part: China uses the dichotomy of labour relations for non-standard employment in most cases. The UK has more comprehensive laws and adopts more lenient laws to provide protection for workers, and basic rights do not depend on long-term regular labour relations. The second section compares the different social security situations in the two countries. The Chinese section focuses on the trend of national pension insurance to promote universal coverage and the construction of occupational injury protection in today's society. The UK section focuses on the promotion of non-standard employment through the pension insurance programme and places greater emphasis on social assistance in social security. These comparisons can serve as a reference for China.
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