China News Service, January 19th. According to the website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the China Enterprise Confederation/China Entrepreneurs Association, and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce jointly issued the issue. The notice requires all localities to do a good job in safeguarding the rights and interests of workers in severe cold weather.
Data map: A takeaway is working under the cold wind.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Jiaxian
The "Notice" pointed out that the three parties to coordinate labor relations at all levels must adhere to the people first and life first, targeted guidance and urge companies to strengthen the protection of workers in severe cold weather, implement measures to protect workers' rights and interests, and effectively protect the lives and health of workers health.
The "Notice" requires that the three parties in coordinating labor relations at all levels must strengthen their responsibilities, cooperate closely, form a joint force, guide enterprises and workers to negotiate and arrange working hours reasonably, effectively protect workers' labor compensation rights, and supervise enterprises to perform labor protection. Responsibility, strengthen publicity, supervision and guidance services, guide the whole society to form a good atmosphere of caring for workers working in severe cold weather, and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers.
The full text of the notice is as follows:
Recently, affected by the cold wave, severe cold weather has continued to occur in parts of my country.
In order to do a good job in safeguarding the rights and interests of workers in severe cold weather, the relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:
1. Attach great importance to the protection of workers' rights under severe cold weather.
The three parties in coordinating labor relations at all levels must adhere to the people's supremacy and life supremacy, fully understand the dangers of severe cold weather to workers, especially sanitation workers, linemen, couriers, takeaways and other outdoor workers, and provide targeted guidance and supervision The enterprise strengthens the protection of workers in severe cold weather, improves the labor protection work system, implements measures to protect workers' rights and interests, and effectively protects the lives and health of workers.
2. Instruct the enterprise to negotiate with workers to arrange working hours reasonably.
Guide companies to reduce the outdoor working hours of outdoor workers in severe cold periods by adjusting working hours, increasing shift rotation, and reducing labor intensity.
Guide platform companies to take measures such as extending the delivery time limit as appropriate to ensure the occupational safety of platform employees such as takeaways.
For those workers who cannot arrive on time due to severe cold weather, guide the enterprise to negotiate with the workers to adopt the wrong time for commuting, flexible commuting, etc. to arrange working hours flexibly.
Enterprises with conditions can arrange for workers to complete work tasks through flexible methods such as telecommuting.
If an enterprise reasonably adjusts its working hours or tasks due to severe cold weather, workers shall cooperate and abide by the relevant regulations.
3. Effectively guarantee the labor rights of laborers.
Guide companies to arrange for workers to reduce their working hours or work tasks due to severe cold weather to ensure that workers' wages are not reduced.
Guide enterprises to provide appropriate job allowances to workers working in severe cold weather.
Encourage enterprises to reflect working environment factors such as low-temperature operations in wage distribution, tilt toward front-line, arduous positions, continuously improve working conditions, and reasonably raise wages.
4. Supervise and urge enterprises to fulfill their main responsibility for labor protection.
Guide and urge enterprises to strengthen the care and protection of workers working in severe cold weather, implement labor protection measures related to cold and warm weather, and strengthen health inspections.
For workers who are not suitable to work in severe cold weather, the enterprise shall negotiate with the workers to adjust their work tasks reasonably.
Actively improve working conditions, add heating equipment, provide necessary labor protection products for workers working in severe cold weather, and strengthen occupational health knowledge training such as low temperature protection.
5. Strengthen publicity, supervision and guidance services.
The three parties in coordinating labor relations at all levels must earnestly improve their ideological understanding, strengthen their responsibilities, and work closely together to form a joint effort to effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers working in severe cold weather.
Special lectures and advanced model propaganda should be carried out to guide the whole society to form a good atmosphere of caring for workers working in severe cold weather.
Human resources and social security departments at all levels should strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of labor security laws and regulations in industries and enterprises that are more affected by severe cold weather, to ensure the life, health and safety of workers and to receive wages in full and in time.
Trade unions at all levels should focus on outdoor workers working in severe cold weather, organize various forms of "sending warm" activities, distribute cold-proof and warm-keeping supplies, make good use of the function of the union's outdoor workers' service station, and provide cold-proof heating for outdoor workers in need service.
Enterprise federations and federations of industry and commerce organizations at all levels should guide enterprises to care for the health of workers, help workers who work in severe cold weather to solve practical difficulties, let workers live through the winter warmly, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers.