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The All-China Federation of Trade Unions issued a notice to promote the resolution of wage arrears for migrant workers.
2019-12-18
In response to the recent rise in wage arrears among migrant workers and the increasing trend of labor disputes caused by wage arrears, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions recently issued a notice. It requires trade unions at all levels to fully utilize their functions in providing legal aid and other rights protection services for workers, further intensify legal aid and rights protection efforts, and use legal means to promote the resolution of wage arrears issues among migrant workers.
In response to the recent rise in wage arrears among migrant workers and the increasing trend of labor disputes caused by wage arrears, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions recently issued a notice requiring trade unions at all levels to fully utilize their functions in legal aid and other rights protection services for workers, further strengthen legal aid and other rights protection services, and use legal means to promote the resolution of migrant workers' wage arrears issues.
"We must change from 'waiting for services' to 'providing door-to-door services,' offering timely legal assistance to migrant workers nearby and locally." The All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the notice requires trade unions at all levels to further smooth the channels for migrant workers to apply for legal aid, such as setting up convenient signboards in prominent locations like labor markets and urban-rural junctions to guide migrant workers to seek legal aid; establishing reception windows for migrant workers at qualified legal aid institutions, appointing dedicated personnel responsible for migrant workers' legal aid reception; simplifying the application and approval procedures for migrant workers' legal aid, and streamlining and expediting the handling of legal aid cases for migrant workers; quickly initiating cross-region cooperation mechanisms for cases from other areas to assist in handling related procedures and materials; strengthening coordination and cooperation with judicial administrative departments, legal aid institutions, bar associations, law firms, and universities; leveraging the exemplary role of "National Outstanding Lawyers for Workers' Rights Protection"; and adopting various forms such as purchasing legal services and volunteer legal aid services to provide convenient, fast, high-quality, and efficient legal services and assistance to migrant workers whose wages have been withheld.
At the same time, the notice requires trade unions at all levels to strengthen labor law supervision, especially focusing on monitoring certain industries, regions, and enterprises. This includes inspecting enterprises with many migrant workers in construction, manufacturing, catering services, and other sectors where wage arrears have occurred; emphasizing on-site investigations of key areas and enterprises prone to wage arrears to promptly grasp the wage payment status and issue early warnings when signs of wage arrears are detected; strengthening supervision of major ongoing construction projects, urging general contracting enterprises to fulfill their responsibility for clearing wage arrears, and promptly correcting wage arrears situations. Meanwhile, fully utilizing the 12315 workers' rights protection hotline, enhancing complaint reception capacity, maintaining 24-hour duty, and establishing a "green channel" for reporting and complaints about migrant workers' wage arrears.
The notice also requires trade unions at all levels to strengthen training for labor law supervisors, labor dispute information officers, mediators, part-time arbitrators, and workers' legal aid workers, with a focus on professional training in labor laws and regulations as well as government policies on wage payment, effectively improving their professional quality and work capabilities. In addition, fully leveraging the characteristics and advantages of trade unions, actively providing legal consultation and legal education to migrant workers. Taking advantage of the concentrated return of migrant workers to their hometowns, legal education activities should be carried out at stations, docks, squares, and other places to guide them to express their interests rationally and legally, promoting the resolution of wage arrears issues.
(December 30, 2011)
