The end of the year is a period when the problem of arrears of wages is prone to high occurrence, and under the deployment of the first year, all localities are accelerating the special action of arrears in the winter. How to carry out the special action and what is the effect?The reporter learned from research and interviews in Beijing, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places that the relevant local departments carried out a comprehensive investigation and classified policies around the work of arrears of wages, and made them pay for the holidays with heart, affection and strength, and promoted the problem of arrears of wages for migrant workers to be fundamentally addressed.
Cure the "stubborn disease" of arrears of wages at the source
How to make migrant workers' wages worry-free?In recent years, many places across the country have focused on source governance, system governance, comprehensive governance and data governance, and used institutional advantages to resolve the hidden dangers of wage arrears.
Wang Shengyun, a steel bar worker, works in a project in Chengdu High-tech Zone, Sichuan, and now his monthly salary is on time. "The salary is supervised by the ** department, so you don't have to worry about arrears, and you can do it with confidence. Wang Shengyun said.
In 2021, seven departments, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, issued the Regulations on Wage Deposits for Migrant Workers in the Field of Engineering Construction to promote the establishment of a unified and standardized wage deposit system across the country. On this basis, Chengdu High-tech Zone explores the establishment of a smart supervision system for migrant workers' arrears, reminds abnormal situations such as salary delays, and effectively plays an early warning function.
Such an early warning platform is the epitome of big data governance on the problem of arrears of wages for migrant workers. The reporter learned that in the three years since the implementation of the "Regulations on Guaranteeing the Payment of Wages to Migrant Workers", many places across the country have implemented a wage guarantee system for migrant workers, implemented measures to quickly resolve wage arrears, and established a comprehensive guarantee system.
One point of deployment, nine points of implementation. In Yiwu, Zhejiang, there are many foreign trade enterprises and start-ups, and in view of the long payment cycle of some small and medium-sized enterprises, which affects the payment of wages, Yiwu has introduced the "wage protection insurance" system according to local conditions to provide new ideas for solving wage arrears.
The representative of a company in arrears of wages in Yiwu City, the employee and the representative of the insurance company signed a tripartite agreement on the settlement of claims of "the insurance first pays the employee's salary, and then recovers from the arrears company". (Photo courtesy of Yiwu Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau).
Wang Guocheng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Yiwu Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, said that the purchase of "wage protection insurance" for workers has realized the "first claim and then recovery" of arrears of wages, and timely protected the legitimate rights and interests of workers "earned from labor". Since the implementation of the policy at the end of August 2023, Yiwu has paid more than 2.2 million yuan in wages to 207 workers.
Expand channels for rights protection in key areas.
At present, the winter special action on wage arrears is being carried out across the country. All localities should pay close attention to enterprises in key industries such as engineering construction, processing and manufacturing, and new forms of employment, investigate the risks and hidden dangers of wage arrears, pay close attention to the verification of clues, and close the case within a time limit.
Towards the end of the year, at the construction site of the second phase of the Beijing New International Exhibition, the Beijing Municipal Coordination Group for Arrears of Migrant Workers' Wages conducted an on-site visit. The reporter saw that several migrant workers made appeals on the spot, and the relevant person in charge recorded the appeals and said that they would verify and deal with them as soon as possible.
The picture shows the Beijing Municipal Coordination Group for Arrears of Migrant Workers' Wages conducting an on-site visit to the construction site of the second phase of the New National Exhibition. (Photo courtesy of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security).
According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Labor and Social Security Supervision Corps, this year, Beijing has set up a "first-class wage arrears linkage disposal headquarters" in the area where the project is concentrated, and selected key inspectors to work on site to deal with the hidden dangers of wage arrears.
Since the beginning of this year, in Beijing, 7,805 construction enterprises have been included in the comprehensive assessment of "risk + credit" for migrant workers' wage payment, and the data has been used to classify construction enterprises. Include projects with low credit and high risk in the ledger of hidden dangers of wage arrears, carry out joint inspections, and urge rectification of problems.
Walking into the construction site and industrial park in Jinhua, Zhejiang, you can always see the *** with Jinhua's "security salary code" with this sentence written below: "Scan the arrears of wages, and the microservice on the code".
According to the staff of the Jinhua Labor and Social Security Service Center, in the past, migrant workers reported that they needed to come to the scene to provide information, but now they can scan the code to fill in the basic information such as the project name, name, and the amount of arrears. In addition, local workers can also resolve labor disputes without leaving home through the labor arbitration function of the "Zheliban" APP.
Yiwu City, a construction site fence pasted on the "Yi'an salary" labor dispute rights protection code. (Photo courtesy of Yiwu Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau).
Effectively improve the effectiveness of arrears management.
The reporter visited and investigated in many places and learned that in order to pay migrant workers in arrears, the local government severely punished malicious wage arrears and other violations of laws and regulations, and at the same time, played the role of administrative and negotiation means to improve the effect of governance arrears.
Shi Fumao, director of Beijing Fumao Law Firm, said that in recent years, the governance of migrant workers' arrears of wages in China has been continuously strengthened, but there are still non-standard real-name management, "two accounts" between labor contracts and oral agreements, project settlement disputes, and slow payment of project funds.
Not long ago, in Meishan City, Sichuan Province, nine migrant workers complained about the arrears of wages owed by the construction company of the construction projectMore than 20,000 yuan. After receiving the complaint, the Meishan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau filed a case for investigation on the same day. After investigation, the company failed to pay wages after receiving the correction instruction within a time limit, and the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau included the company in the list of targets for joint punishment for untrustworthiness in arrears of migrant workers' wages, and coordinated with the general contractor to pay off.
The long duration of labor disputes is a major problem that plagues workers in protecting their rights. Recently, in order to get back the 50,000 yuan owed wages, Lin Wuzhong, who worked in Guangzhou, and 16 workers walked into the arbitration court for the first time and resolved their claims after only two mediations. The two mediations completed the "package" settlement of 17 wage arrears disputes, which is the "acceleration" brought about by the launch of the "adjudication and adjudication joint investigation" working mechanism in Baiyun District, Guangzhou.
Li Yonghua, president of the Guangzhou Baiyun District Labor and Personnel Dispute Arbitration Court, said that the most prominent feature of the joint investigation of adjudication and adjudication is that it is convenient and efficient to resolve disputes over arrears of wages in a package manner, so that arbitrators and judges can run more errands and workers can run less errands.
The picture shows Li Yonghua (second from right in the back row), president of the Labor and Personnel Dispute Arbitration Court of Baiyun District, Guangzhou, at the scene of mediation of wage arrears disputes. (Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Baiyun District Labor and Personnel Dispute Arbitration Court).
The human resources and social security departments in many places said that they will urge enterprises to implement the process settlement system, raise funds in advance when they encounter financial difficulties, and activate regulatory funds, migrant workers' wage deposits or migrant workers' wage emergency revolving funds if necessary, so as to effectively ensure the basic livelihood of migrant workers and strengthen the bottom line of people's livelihood. (Reporter Chen Xu, Li Ping, Mao Xin, Chen Jian).
*: Xinhua News Agency).