China-Singapore Jingwei, November 26 (Dong Xiangyi) There are nearly 300 million migrant workers in China. As the end of the year approaches, the issue of migrant workers' wages has once again attracted attention.
Since November 2021, the special winter campaign to eradicate wages has been rolled out across the country, and 16 provinces including Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong, Henan, and Qinghai have taken actions to rectify wages, requiring them to be cleared before the Spring Festival of 2022.
The Office of the State Council’s Leading Group for the Elimination of Peasant Workers’ Wages in arrears has recently issued the "Notice on Launching Special Winter Actions for the Elimination of Unpaid Wages", deciding that from November 1, 2021 to before the Spring Festival of 2022, the project construction field and other wage arrears are prone to be issued. Focusing on industry enterprises, we will implement centralized and special governance on the issue of wage arrears nationwide.
The verified wage arrears must be settled before the Spring Festival in 2022.
The notice requires to strengthen the inspection of the implementation of various wage payment systems in the engineering construction field, order the rectification of illegal activities within a time limit, and urge enterprises to perform statutory obligations. Those who fail to make corrections within the time limit shall be severely punished in accordance with the law.
For those who may be involved in malicious arrears of wages, in accordance with the "Regulations on Guaranteeing the Payment of Migrant Workers" and other provisions, inquire about the financial accounts of relevant entities and the real estate and vehicles of the relevant parties in accordance with the law. If the crime of refusal to pay labor remuneration is verified, it shall be promptly transferred to the judicial authority. Be held criminally responsible.
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16 provinces shot to eradicate underpaid wages
According to incomplete statistics from China-Singapore Jingwei, 16 provinces including Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong, Henan, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shandong, Liaoning, Ningxia, Sichuan, Hubei, and Zhejiang have recently launched special actions to rectify arrears. , Investigating, punishing, and pursuing punishments to ensure that wages are paid in full.
Beijing:
Beijing will organize a special winter campaign to eradicate underpaid wages from November 1 to 2022 before the Spring Festival.
Focus on the engineering construction field and other industries that are prone to pay arrears, and implement centralized and special management of the issue of salary arrears.
Comprehensively check the approval and management of construction projects in progress, appropriation of construction funds (labor costs), and capital supervision to resolve the risk of wage arrears at the source.
Tianjin:
Tianjin issued the "Implementation Plan for the Special Action for the Eradication of Wages in Winter in Tianjin" to promote the dynamic clearing of hidden dangers of wages, and all confirmed wage arrears cases will be cleared before the Spring Festival in 2022.
Focusing on the engineering construction field and other industries that are prone to wage arrears, pay special attention to the arrears of individual real estate development companies and the scale layoffs of off-campus training institutions, and include them in the scope of special actions.
Guangdong:
From November 1 to 2022 before the Spring Festival, Guangdong will focus on carrying out a special winter campaign to eradicate arrears of wages, and all the problems of arrears of wages must be resolved before the Spring Festival of 2022.
Focusing on engineering and construction fields that employ more migrant workers, labor-intensive processing and manufacturing, and industries that are severely affected by the epidemic, organize efforts to intensify the investigation of potential wage arrears, and establish the Work ledger, supervise and urge the enterprise to make rectification within a time limit, so that the account will never be written off if the problem is not solved.
Henan:
Henan carried out a special action video conference for the eradication of wage underpayment in winter, and arranged and deployed the eradication of wage underpayment in the field of housing construction and municipal infrastructure in the province.
A comprehensive arrangement has been made for the solid implementation of the province’s housing construction and municipal infrastructure areas to eradicate wages in winter, and to ensure the payment of migrant workers’ wages before the Spring Festival in 2022.
Qinghai:
On November 5, Qinghai held a special winter campaign to mobilize and deploy a video and telephone conference for the eradication of wage arrears. From mid-November 2021 to before the Spring Festival 2022, Qinghai will focus on engineering construction and other industries that are prone to wage arrears. The province-wide implementation of centralized and special governance on the issue of wages arrears.
Inner Mongolia:
On November 17, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region held a teleconference on the mobilization and deployment of the "Hundred Days Tackling Hardship" campaign to eradicate wage arrears.
The meeting requested that the “five special treatments” be carried out in key areas of wage arrears, guarantee the implementation of the wage payment system, the investigation of clues to wages, the lack of access to rights protection, and the investigation of hidden dangers.
Shaanxi:
From November 5 to 2022, before the Spring Festival, Shaanxi will carry out a special winter campaign to eradicate arrears of wages, focusing on engineering construction and other industries that are prone to wage arrears, and implement centralized and special rectification of the problem of wages arrears.
It is required that all the verified wage arrears should be settled before the Chinese New Year in 2022.
Jiangxi:
On November 3, the Office of the Leading Group for the Elimination of Unpaid Migrant Workers’ Wages in Jiangxi issued the “Notice on the Implementation of the Winter Special Action for the Elimination of Unpaid Wages”, deciding to organize a special winter campaign for the eradication of underpaid wages from November 1, 2021 to 2022 before the Spring Festival. action.
We will comprehensively strengthen the punishment for illegal wages, make full use of administrative, criminal, and credit disciplinary measures, strengthen the connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and severely punish arrears of wages, especially malicious wages.
Jiangsu:
Recently, the Jiangsu Provincial Government held a special winter campaign to eradicate underpaid wages to mobilize and deploy a video and telephone conference to ensure the payment of migrant workers’ wages.
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to focus on the focus of work, unblock channels for reporting and complaints, in-depth investigation of hidden dangers of wage arrears, and increase the intensity of punishment, so that all cases must be investigated and violations must be investigated.
Shanxi:
From November 3 to 2022 before the Spring Festival, Shanxi has organized a special winter campaign to eradicate wage arrears for migrant workers.
The action focuses on the engineering construction field and other enterprises in the industries that are prone to pay arrears, and implement centralized and special management of the issue of pay arrears, and severely penalize illegal acts of malicious arrears of pay.
The verified wage arrears will be settled before the Spring Festival in 2022, and it is guaranteed that migrant workers will get their wages and go home for the New Year.
Shandong:
Shandong will organize a special winter campaign to eradicate underpaid wages from November 1, 2021 to before the Spring Festival of 2022.
This action focused on the engineering construction field and other industries that are prone to pay arrears, comprehensively investigate the implementation of the wage payment guarantee system, check the approval management of construction projects, the appropriation of construction funds (labor costs), and the supervision of funds, and strengthen the arrears Punishment for wage violations, and speed up the classification, verification and handling of reports and complaints of wage arrears.
Liaoning:
Liaoning recently issued the "Notice on Carrying out Special Actions for the Eradication of Unpaid Wages in Winter", requesting that all the verified wages should be resolved before January 30, 2022.
The key industries, fields, and enterprises of this winter special action to eradicate unpaid wages are: engineering construction fields that recruit more migrant workers, labor-intensive processing and manufacturing industries, off-campus training institutions, and hidden dangers of migrant workers who are affected by the epidemic. Other companies.
Ningxia:
Ningxia decided to organize a special winter campaign to eradicate wage arrears from November 1, 2021 to 2022 before the Spring Festival, to ensure that government-invested engineering projects, state-owned enterprise projects, and various government-social capital cooperation projects that occur in 2021 are in arrears of migrant workers’ wages. All cases will be cleared before the end of the year, and other wage arrears cases will be dynamically cleared before the Spring Festival in 2022.
Sichuan:
Sichuan has decided to organize a "sharp sword" operation to eradicate underpaid wages from November 1, 2021 until the Spring Festival in 2022.
Comprehensively investigate the wage payment status of construction projects in progress, labor-intensive processing and manufacturing enterprises, enterprises severely affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the "double reduction" policy, and new employment forms; promote the realization of government-invested engineering projects, state-owned enterprise projects, and various types of All cases of wage arrears for migrant workers in the government-social capital cooperation project will be cleared before December 31, 2021, and other wage arrears will be cleared dynamically before the Spring Festival in 2022.
Hubei:
The Office of the Leading Group for the Eradication of Wages in Hubei Province issued the "Notice on Launching the Special Action for the Winter of 2021 to Eradication of Wages arrears." All will be cleared before the Chinese New Year in 2022.
Zhejiang:
The special winter campaign for Zhejiang to eradicate wage arrears will run from November 1, 2021 to before the Spring Festival of 2022. The campaign focuses on the construction field and other industries that are prone to wage arrears as the focus of inspection, and mainly investigates the approval management and funding of construction projects in progress. Supervision and the implementation of the "six systems", etc., urge enterprises to implement their main responsibilities, strengthen the governance of the source of the risk of wage arrears, and comprehensively strengthen the punishment for violations of wages arrears.
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Wages in arrears or joint punishment for dishonesty!
This year, the country still maintains a high pressure on wage arrears. The "Notice on Launching Special Actions for the Eradication of Unpaid Wages in Winter" pointed out that all violations of wages that meet the requirements of the "blacklist" should be listed and exposed, and in collaboration with relevant departments Carrying out joint punishments for dishonesty, so that those who violate the law with arrears of wages have "one violation of the law and restrictions everywhere."
Source: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security website
In addition, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Interim Measures for the Management of the List of Targets for Joint Punishment of Untrustworthy Peasant Workers with Wages in arrears", which will come into effect on January 1, 2022.
The method is clear. The employer’s deduction and unreasonable arrears of migrant workers’ wages have reached the standard for determining the crime of refusal to pay labor remuneration, or group incidents or extreme events have caused serious adverse social impacts due to illegal acts of owing migrant workers’ wages. The department according to law orders the payment of wages within a time limit, and if the payment is not made within the time limit,
the employer and its legal representative and other relevant responsible personnel shall be included in the joint punishment list for dishonesty.
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Sun Zhongwei, a professor at the Labor and Social Security Research Center of South China Normal University, said in an interview with Sino-Singapore Jingwei that there is basically no subjective or malicious arrears of wages by enterprises at present, mainly due to the sudden business interruption caused by external shocks, which in turn triggers arrears of wages. .
In addition, the unpaid groups are not only low-educated, non-local migrant workers, but also part of the middle and high-educated workers. The unpaid group covers a wider range.
Sun Zhongwei believes that eradicating wage arrears does not mean that there will be no more wage arrears. The key is to take the people as the center, effectively guarantee the basic lives of workers and their family members, and form a set of effective institutional mechanisms and solutions. The problem of wage arrears can be resolved in a timely and reasonable manner, and the labor disputes and social risks caused by wage arrears can be resolved before they occur.
How to defend your rights when you encounter arrears?
In the event of wage arrears, workers can protect their legitimate rights and interests through the following channels:
One is to call the unified telephone number 12333 for complaints, reports and policy consultations.
If workers encounter wage arrears, they can first consult relevant policies. The Beijing 12333 hotline provides the community with 24-hour policy interpretation and consulting services.
The second is to directly complain to the labor security supervision department of the place where the worker is employed.
The third is to apply to the labor and personnel dispute mediation and arbitration agency for mediation and arbitration.
If there is a dispute with the employer over whether or not the wages are arrears and the amount of wages arrears, the employee can apply to the enterprise, the township, park or industry labor and personnel dispute mediation organization in accordance with the law; if the mediation fails or is unwilling to mediate, it may Apply for arbitration to the arbitration institution in the place where the labor contract is performed or where the employer is registered in accordance with the law; if dissatisfied with the arbitration award, the employee may file a lawsuit in accordance with the law.
(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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