Recently, the temperature in many places has reached new highs, but some outdoor workers still stick to their jobs in the sweltering heat.
Many readers wrote to reflect that the high temperature allowance standard in some areas is low, and it is recommended to adjust it.
At present, some places have successively raised the standard of high temperature allowance.
For example, since June this year, Henan Province has adjusted the high temperature allowance from 10 yuan per working day to 15 yuan per person, and the payment time has been adjusted from June to August each year to June to September.
In addition, in some places, couriers and takeaway riders fainted in the middle of the heat.
Mr. Zhang, a reader from Guangzhou, Guangdong, worked as a courier for nearly two years at the Xindu Express operation point of Huadu District of Guangzhou SF Express Co., Ltd., and has now resigned.
He has fainted several times due to heatstroke, and the unit has not issued any subsidies and heatstroke prevention supplies.
"I have reported to the labor and social security department of Huadu District many times, but it has been fruitless." Mr. Zhang said.
Ms. Qu, a reader from Puyang City, Henan Province, said that her relative is a Meituan takeaway rider who is almost open all year round. Even if she takes a half-day leave, her monthly allowance may be deducted.
"I work in the open air most of the time every day, the weather is hot, and I haven't received a high temperature allowance. It was not paid last summer, and it has not been paid this year." Ms. Qu said that she reported this problem to the local labor and social security department, and has not yet received has been solved.
In July 2021, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other 8 departments jointly issued guidelines to safeguard the labor security rights and interests of workers in the new employment form, proposed to strengthen occupational injury protection, and adopted a combination of government leadership, informatization guidance and social forces to undertake the establishment and improvement of Occupational injury protection management service specification and operation mechanism.
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions issued a notice a few days ago, proposing to actively expand the functions of service facilities such as service stations for outdoor workers, with new employment forms as the main service targets, and to provide convenience for workers working outdoors in hot weather to take a break from the summer.
"Some employers pay more attention to economic interests and ignore the rights and interests of workers." Tu Yongqian, a researcher at the National Institute of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China, said that my country's high-temperature allowances include traditional standard labor that emphasizes the establishment of labor relations in legislation. The scope of protection, and the labor relationship determination of couriers and other flexible employees is not clearly stipulated, and the labor security stipulated in the labor law is therefore discounted when it is implemented.
The relevant person in charge of the Future Road Sub-district Office in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province told reporters that in recent years, Zhengzhou has carried out the "send cool" activity to send cool oil and other heatstroke prevention and cooling items to workers in new employment forms.
The community has set up a love station to provide free summer supplies and medicines.
In addition, the sub-district offices provide professional legal aid services to support workers in safeguarding their rights in accordance with the law.
Under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, front-line personnel of epidemic prevention also need high temperature labor protection.
Mr. Wang, a reader in Weifang City, Shandong Province, suggested the establishment of a temporary inspection board room or the requisition of public places.
In this regard, the Weifang Municipal Health and Health Commission issued a notice requiring that permanent sampling points such as "willingness to inspect and do all the inspection" can be used to build nucleic acid sampling huts in prefabricated buildings such as prefabricated houses and container houses, and equipped with air conditioning, air purification and other equipment.
Recently, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council has issued a work guide, requiring that the epidemic prevention and control organizations at all levels should reasonably arrange jobs, scientifically arrange working hours, improve the working environment, strengthen individual protection for high-temperature operations, and provide heatstroke prevention drinks and emergency items.
"For new situations and new demands for high-temperature labor protection, local human resources and social departments, trade unions, employers and labor inspection departments should make joint efforts." Tu Yongqian suggested that human resources and social departments should establish high-temperature Dynamic adjustment mechanism of allowances; trade unions should broaden the scope of high-temperature labor protection, and actively negotiate with employers on behalf of workers to determine the payment standards of high-temperature allowances; employers should pay high-temperature allowances on time and in full to prevent occupational heatstroke events; labor supervision departments Law popularization and law enforcement supervision should be strengthened, and employers should be urged to fulfill their responsibilities for high-temperature labor protection.