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City cracks down on wage defaults
    2021-08-20  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A LOCAL company and its senior executive have been blacklisted in the second quarter of the year for failing to pay their rural migrant workers’ salaries on time, the city’s human resources and social security bureau said Wednesday.

Shenzhen Kingstrong Group was accused of owing 1.58 million yuan (US$243,395) in back salaries to 33 migrant workers and Li Youguo was found to have failed to pay 94,650 yuan to his workers without an excuse.

To protect the migrant workers’ rights and warn enterprises against illegal behavior, the bureau and related departments jointly established the city’s “blacklist” of defaulters on the salaries of rural migrant workers in September 2018. As of now, the authority has blacklisted 57 companies, their legal representatives and senior executives.

According to relevant rules, the bureau takes administrative punishment against both entities and individuals that have been blacklisted. Meanwhile, the punishments of blacklisted entities and individuals cover areas such as government financial support and procurement, production permission, market access and preferential tax treatment.

The municipal government has attached great importance to wage default problems faced by the city’s migrant workers. Business entities and their persons in charge will be blacklisted when their behaviors constitute crimes, and when defaults on salaries could cause mass disturbance and seriously affect society.

The city has intensified its fight against salary arrears and taken 26 disciplinary measures, including increasing examination frequency of wage cheaters, suspending governmental funding, downgrading credit ratings and downgrading qualification in tenders for engineering projects.

“The blacklist is a deterrent to employers who delay wage payments. Improving working conditions can protect migrant workers’ basic rights,” said an official with the human resources bureau.

If companies comply with wage payment regulations for 12 months from the day when they are blacklisted, they will be removed from the list, the official said. If the firms incur wage arrears again, another 24 months will be added to the punishment period.

At present, the bureau has transferred 78 wage default cases to public security organs.

(Xia Yuanjie)

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