[Survey on labor employment in the construction market ③] The general contractor recovers the right to pay on behalf of the wages and points to the chaotic operation in the dark box

　　The establishment of a real-name system and the general contractor's recovery of the direct right to pay on behalf of wages have reduced the chaos such as wage deductions in the construction labor market and made employment more standardized.

With the deepening of reforms, industry insiders believe that the traditional employment model based on comprehensive subcontracting of labor service enterprises will move to a new employment model based on construction companies that simply provide qualified labor resources.

In addition, general contracting enterprises will transform to industrialized production and establish their own technical team, thereby breaking the status quo of a high proportion of outsourced labor.

　　On September 24, because some data on personnel wages needed to be checked, Zhan Chaoxiang called the team leader Song Feng (pseudonym) of the steel bar group to communicate with the project office.

Sitting at the workstation, looking through the window on the first floor, she saw Song Feng, who was wearing a safety helmet and a safety vest, strode towards her.

As a labor real-name management commissioner, Zhan Chaoxiang certainly knows that Song Feng is not a team leader in the conventional sense, but a labor broker for more than 40 workers in the steel team. Before the transformation, he was also known as a contractor in the industry.

In almost all construction projects, "Song Fengmen" of different types of work have always been a subtle presence among project builders.

　　The contractor, an identity that was clearly cancelled by the government in the industry more than 10 years ago, is gradually disappearing from the construction labor market and exists in another identity.

They have a tight team of workers in their hands. The engineering unit relies on them to a certain extent, but they are also on guard in many ways.

With the establishment of the real-name system and the general contracting unit withdrawing the right to pay on behalf of wages, the chaos caused by contractors such as deductions and arrears of wages has decreased, and the employment of labor has gradually been standardized.

　　There are certain difficulties in organizing workers

　　"If you cross the labor broker, can you really not hire workers?"

　　"Yes, but not enough." Faced with reporters' questions, Zhan Chaoxiang's answer was categorical.

　　Zhan Chaoxiang’s current China Construction Fourth Bureau and Third Company opened the Shengtai project for the first time, using a small team management model, with a large number of peasant workers and a large flow of workers. Because of work needs, she and team leaders frequently deal with each other.

During the resumption of the project during the epidemic at the beginning of this year, she also witnessed the role of the labor broker in organizing the workers to return to the team. “Although we sent a car to pick up the workers at the location of the workers, it can also be said that the people were organized to come back. of".

　　With the gradual introduction of policies to regulate the construction labor market, the form of employment of contractors has been eliminated. The former contractors have transformed themselves into labor brokers to organize workers and engineering parties.

　　Zhan Chaoxiang said that most labor service companies currently have only a small number of managers and no stable workforce. "Without labor brokers, it is difficult to organize workers at this stage."

　　The construction industry is labor-intensive and requires a large number of workers as support.

Due to the low technical content and low threshold of the construction industry, scattered and flexible construction workers need labor brokers as a link to connect to the engineering side.

Gao Chengzi, who is the safety director of the Western Region of CSCEC, has more than 10 years of experience in engineering units.

He told reporters: "The contractors in the past and the labor brokers now hold engineering resources and human resources. Both general contractors and migrant workers have the right to speak."

　　“Migrant worker teams usually have a strong regional character. The contractor is usually the first migrant worker organizer in the team, with high prestige and influence. Team members have a strong identity and emotional identification with them.” Gao Chengzi believes that It is precisely because of this that, although the existence of the contractor, the current labor broker, will undoubtedly increase labor costs as another intermediary who makes the difference, it is still a very subtle existence in engineering construction at least for now.

　　Labor brokers have fewer and fewer chips

　　Zhan Chaoxiang is currently working on a project with a total of 10 labor service companies at the same time. Every month, he has to calculate the final salary with the labor team leaders of different types of work, and then publicize the salary tables they submit on the project.

Such a management model has been dissatisfied and resisted by labor brokers due to its high transparency, but the general trend of reform is irreversible.

　　Since last year, the national real-name management platform for construction workers has been officially launched.

The platform can record information about migrant workers entering and leaving the construction site, attendance, and wage payment in real time. When labor disputes occur, this information can be used as real evidence to help migrant workers defend their rights; through the platform, special wage accounts can be established, and the bank’s payment system can be implemented to prevent debts. Salary; in addition, the platform can also display information such as the skill level of migrant workers, which is equivalent to preparing an electronic resume for them, which helps migrant workers with frequent mobility to find suitable jobs.

　　"After the real-name system of employment reform, many problems have been effectively resolved." Ji Shengbao, project manager of the North China Star Interchange Plaza of the China Construction Third Bureau, told reporters how much work, how long and how long did the workers enter the site in the past, and the wages of the workers. The engineering side does not know how much it accounts for. Only the labor broker knows it. Therefore, the labor broker has a high degree of discretion for the top and the bottom.

After real-name information management, there is a clear record of how many workers enter the field and how long they work, and then wages are calculated based on output value. There is no room for black-box operations in chaos such as wage deductions.

　　In addition, during the interview, the relevant persons in charge of the engineering unit mentioned the "Regulations on Guaranteeing the Payment of Migrant Workers’ Wages" formally implemented on May 1. The general contracting unit’s agency issuance system".

"In view of the problem that wage payment in the field of engineering construction has to go through multiple links such as general contractors, subcontractors, and heads of labor, it is easy to be intercepted and deducted. The general construction contractor directly sends the wages to the bank account of the migrant worker through a special account. The wage payment link is reduced. Although such a regulation has increased the management pressure on general contractors, it is a strong restriction on labor brokers, and their hands are getting less and less chips." said Ji Shengbao.

　　The general contractor transforms to the establishment of its own technical team

　　Despite the sharp decline in the strength and momentum of labor brokers, in the short term, the engineering side's employment in the construction market still cannot completely get rid of their constraints.

　　Wang Bo, deputy general manager of CSCEC Sichuan Branch, has been involved in grassroots projects for over 10 years.

In his view, there are two possibilities for the role of contractor to disappear or be replaced in the field of construction. One is that the group of migrant workers is truly transformed into industrial workers, and employment is no longer a group organization behavior, but an independent choice; One is that contractors and labor brokers grow into standardized labor companies or enter labor companies to become human resources managers.

　　"At present, there are only a handful of labor service companies that have upgraded and transformed from early contractors to legal and regulated labor services." Zhan Chaoxiang told reporters that the project she worked in this year had the highest peak labor volume of about 400 people, of which labor agents led the team. The situation still occupies a very high proportion.

According to what she knows, among the 10 labor service companies that she has cooperated with, only one has truly started as a contractor and developed into a labor service company after more than 10 years.

　　However, Wang Bo is still optimistic about the current labor trends in the construction market.

He believes that as the construction industry enters a new stage of deepening reforms, on the one hand, the traditional employment model based on comprehensive subcontracting of labor service enterprises will gradually withdraw from the stage and move towards a new employment model based on construction companies that simply provide qualified labor resources. .

In addition, the rise of the prefabricated construction system will also promote the transformation of general contractors to industrial production and establish their own technical team, thus breaking the status quo of a high proportion of outsourced labor.

　　"In order to avoid labor disputes and settlement disputes, we are currently advancing a refined labor contract pricing model to clarify the profit of the labor force, which is very beneficial to the refined management of the enterprise and the quality and safety management of the project." Wang Bo said, despite the employment During the transitional period of system reform, the status of labor service enterprises, construction teams and teams undertaking the main tasks of general contracting enterprises' construction operations will not change, but these new measures and new paths have promoted the development of labor employment to a certain extent in a more standardized direction.

　　Li Na