Rectify the arrears of wages and allow migrant workers to return home safely
——Observation of the special winter action to eradicate wage arrears
A salary, behind it is the hope of a family, is a guarantee of life.
As the end of the year draws to a close, ensuring that migrant workers receive full and timely remuneration is a topic of social concern.
What the people want, what the government wants.
In November 2021, the country will launch a special winter campaign to eradicate wage arrears.
The reporter recently conducted investigations in Shandong, Hunan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Chongqing and other places to find out how this action is progressing in various places and how to ensure that workers return home safely.
Keep an eye on key areas such as engineering construction
Since the launch of the winter special campaign to eradicate wage arrears, many places have paid close attention to key areas such as engineering construction, insisted on early prevention, early intervention, and early resolution, and promoted the prompt handling of wage arrears cases.
The reporter investigated and learned that Jinan City, Shandong relies on 170 street and town migrant workers "foreman" and 650 grid workers to investigate the salary payment and hidden dangers of arrears of engineering construction projects.
As of December 31, 2021, a total of 27,079 employers have been inspected in Shandong Province, and 137 million yuan in wages and compensation for 24,000 employees, including 15,000 migrant workers.
Relevant departments in Tianxin District, Changsha City, Hunan Province have fully mobilized the strength of street and community coordinators to rectify wage arrears. So far, 1,074 clues have been closed, benefiting more than 800 migrant workers.
As a major importing province of migrant workers, Guangdong, for construction projects and labor-intensive enterprises, has recently focused on the inspection of migrant workers’ wage payments and the implementation of the wage payment guarantee system, and has listed major and typical wage arrears cases to supervise the handling of major and typical wage arrears cases, so as to ensure that the problems are not resolved without sales. account.
At the same time, many places also urged the government departments "involving migrant workers" to coordinate efforts to promote the investigation of hidden dangers and case disposal.
Several departments in Yunnan have jointly issued relevant policies to further standardize and refine the management of migrant workers’ wage margin, clarify the wage margin supervision department, and focus on solving the problem of migrant workers’ wage arrears in the field of engineering construction.
Yunnan also raised 140 million yuan to carry out warm-hearted activities for migrant workers and other groups, exerted the power of trade unions, cooperated with the special inspection of migrant workers' wage payment, and timely discovered and resolved hidden dangers of wage arrears.
Severely punishing wage arrears, especially malicious wage arrears, is a powerful measure to safeguard the rights and interests of migrant workers.
In order to assist the nationwide winter special campaign to eradicate wage arrears, the Supreme People's Procuratorate recently released a number of typical cases to protect the "salaries" of migrant workers.
对已排除风险隐患的企业和项目，也要进行“回头看”。重庆近期对2021年受理的1600余起欠薪案件开展复查，防止问题复发。“我们逐一核查银行支付流水，电话回访投诉者本人，确保被拖欠工资发到每位农民工。”重庆市劳动保障监察总队副总队长周洪渝说。
畅通“绿色通道” 跨区联动破欠薪
2021年12月30日，在济南市外来务工人员(农民工)综合服务中心，为给曾卫国等30多名农民工讨回420万元欠薪，一场调解会一连开了好几个小时。
“没想到，第二天就拿到了被拖欠的首批50万元工资，剩余的钱开发商春节前会按协议全部支付。到了综合服务中心，就像到了‘娘家’一样。”曾卫国说。
济南市公共就业服务中心农民工服务处处长乔学成说，综合服务中心整合人社、住建、司法等21个职能部门力量集中办公，有效避免了农民工“来回跑”等问题。
在根治欠薪冬季专项行动中，重庆23个市级部门协同配合，紧盯117个在建建设项目欠薪隐患，统筹解决农民工工资被拖欠问题。为加快畅通农民工投诉、求助的“绿色通道”，重庆建立了劳动者反映问题线索“直通车”等常态机制。
针对近年来农民工异地讨薪案件增多的情况，多地持续强化跨区域联动协作机制，破解农民工异地讨薪难题。
贵州安顺市农民工老韦近日收到了8000元欠薪，他喜出望外，顾不得雪后严寒，赶到镇上的邮局。在信封上，他像小学生一样一笔一画写下广州市总工会的地址，用一纸书信表达感激之情。此前，安顺、广州两地工会联动协作，几天就为他追回欠薪。
借助信息化手段，手机维权平台让劳动者可以足不出户一键维权。在广东中山市，群众通过“中山人社”微信公众号进入“指尖维权”平台，填写个人基本信息和具体维权事项，就能在家等待办理结果。
受疫情等因素影响，一些企业经营压力增大。为此，各地兼顾情与法，采取柔性工作方式。“我们主要采取普法宣传，动员困难企业从其他渠道筹集资金，首先结清劳动者工资。”广东中山市人力资源和社会保障局东区分局副局长谢明刚说。
建立长效机制 多管齐下塑合力
In recent years, as the country and localities continue to strengthen the governance of arrears of wages to migrant workers, cases of arrears of wages to migrant workers have generally shown a downward trend.
However, in the fields of engineering construction and other fields, chaos still exists, such as advanced construction, illegal subcontracting, subcontracting at various levels, and affiliated contracting, and the arrears of wages for migrant workers are frequent.
In addition, wage arrears and wage demands are often intertwined with economic disputes, which also brings difficulties to wage arrears.
How can we eradicate wage arrears?
Relevant experts believe that the most important thing is to speed up the establishment and improvement of a long-term mechanism and create a complete closed loop of policies.
If it is found that the crime of refusing to pay labor remuneration is suspected, it shall be promptly transferred to the judicial organ for criminal responsibility.
Data show that from January to November 2021, procuratorial organs across the country have reviewed and prosecuted 2,813 criminal cases of refusal to pay labor remuneration and 3,243 people, and recovered about 168 million yuan in arrears through case handling, which has played a good deterrent effect.
At the same time, it is necessary to promote the formation of a whole-process governance mechanism of "prevention in advance, monitoring during the event, and disposal after the event".
Wang Zhongwu, a professor at the Department of Sociology of Shandong University, believes that all localities should implement relevant safeguard measures without compromise, such as promoting the full coverage of salary deposits, emergency working capital, arrears guarantee funds, and the system of paying wages on behalf of banks, and innovating governance methods to consolidate them. The basis for rooting out wage arrears.
In addition, to eradicate wage arrears, it is necessary to further improve informatization and intelligent means.
Wen Fengan, a professor at the Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, suggested that big data monitoring should be carried out on wage payment, credit, taxation, water and electricity bills, etc., so as to study and judge the risk of wage arrears and issue early warnings, which will help to find and block the hidden dangers of wage arrears from the source.
(Reporter Huang Xing Su Xiaozhou Wang Zhi Huang Haoyuan Lin Bifeng Xie Ying)
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 24)