As the end of the year approaches, construction sites around the country have entered the acceptance stage. However, behind the prosperity, there are many headaches. Among them, the most prominent is the arrears of wages of labor workers.
Recently, at the gate of a large public hospital project in a certain place, a group of workers put up a banner to express their arrears of wages. While this may not make much of a difference, the problem behind it cannot be ignored.
The project was built by a local urban investment company, and the general contractor was the Universe Bureau, a central enterprise. To the outsider, this background seems to guarantee funding for the project**. However, in reality, the problem of unpaid wages remains serious.
Many people may be curious, since the general contractor is a central enterprise, then the project funds should be guaranteed. However, in fact, the problem of arrears of wages in engineering projects often does not stem from the shortage of funds in the intermediate links, but from the lack of funds at the source.
In the process of project contracting, whether it is a general contractor or a subcontractor, they will apply for funds from the source according to their own project progress. Once there is a shortage of funds at the source, then the entire funding chain of the project will be affected. And the wages of workers are often the first to be affected.
In addition, in modern engineering project management, both companies and individual bosses tend to dedicate project expenses to specific funds. They don't use the profits of other projects to supplement the project, because that could put the project in a deeper predicament. And when funds are not available, they often take extreme measures, such as unpaid wages, to force the upper echelons to allocate funds as soon as possible.
In general, the problem of arrears of wages in the project is not a simple issue of labor rights protection, but a problem involving the fund management of the entire project. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to start from the source, strengthen the supervision of project funds, and ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of every worker are protected.