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Fund earmarked to bar salary defaults to migrant workers
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-04-03 15:42
The Construction Bureau of central China's Henan Province has collected 150
million yuan (18. 07 million US dollars) in a guarantee fund designed to prevent
cases of salary default to migrant workers.
Migrant
workers await trains outside a trian station. They leave for
cities in the hope to gain a better life.
[newsphoto/file] | | | The
establishment of the fund is part of the province's response to the central
Chinese government's call for putting an end to a rampant phenomenon in the
construction sector in which employers often fail to pay their transient workers
as promised, so as to protect legitimate rights of migrant workers, said a local
official.
A regulation worked out last year by the provincial government stipulates
that all builders must set aside two percent of their contract prices as
guarantee fund for salaries of migrant workers. The guarantee fund will be
managed by local authorities of construction, with its use being supervised by
local departments of labor and social security.
If a builder fails to pay migrant workers the full amount of salary on time,
local construction departments will use the guarantee fund to pay the migrant
worker's salary. Those builders who refuse to deposit money into the guarantee
fund won't be allowed to continue building or given permits to start
construction of their projects, the official said.
By now, the system of the guarantee fund against salary default to transient
workers has been in place in 18 cities of Henan, the country's most populous
province, said the official.
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