Interpretation of the latest regulations on ensuring the wage payment of migrant workers in 2023

Recently, China promulgated the Regulations on the Protection of Wage Payment for Migrant Workers, which is the first law to deal with the problem of wage arrears for migrant workers. This regulation was officially implemented on May 1 2022. How to interpret the latest provisions of wage payment guarantee for migrant workers? Let me answer for readers. I hope the following knowledge will help readers.

Interpretation of the latest regulations to ensure the payment of wages for migrant workers

According to reports, the regulations are designed for the special group of migrant workers and the key problem of wage arrears, and the measures that have been mature and effective in many years of practice to control wage arrears of migrant workers, including special accounts for migrant workers' wages, general contracting agents, real-name registration system for employment, and wage deposits, have been upgraded to legal norms, effectively protecting the interests of migrant workers and strengthening the supervision and management responsibilities of relevant departments.

Relevant laws and regulations

Regulations on the payment of wages for migrant workers

Third migrant workers have the right to receive wages in full and on time. No unit or individual may default on the wages of migrant workers.

Migrant workers should abide by labor discipline and professional ethics, implement labor safety and health regulations, and complete labor tasks.

Article 4 The local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for ensuring the payment of migrant workers' wages within their respective administrative areas, establishing a coordination mechanism for ensuring the payment of migrant workers' wages, strengthening the construction of supervision capacity, improving the target responsibility system for ensuring the payment of migrant workers' wages, and incorporating it into the assessment and supervision of the relevant departments of the people's government at the same level and the people's governments at lower levels.

Township people's governments and sub-district offices shall strengthen the investigation and mediation of the contradiction of wage arrears for migrant workers, prevent and resolve contradictions, and mediate disputes in a timely manner.

Article 5 To ensure the payment of migrant workers' wages, we should adhere to the principles of market subject responsibility, government supervision according to law and social co-management, and according to the requirements of source treatment, prevention first, combining prevention with treatment, and treating both the symptoms and root causes, the problem of wage arrears for migrant workers should be eradicated according to law.

Article 6 The employing unit shall implement the real-name system management for the employment of migrant workers, and stipulate the wage payment standard, payment time and payment method. Recruit migrant workers in written form or through rules and regulations formulated according to law.

Article 7 The administrative department of human resources and social security shall be responsible for ensuring the organization, coordination, management and guidance of migrant workers' wage payment and the supervision and inspection of migrant workers' wage payment, and investigating cases of wage arrears for migrant workers.

Housing and urban and rural construction, transportation, water conservancy and other related industries, the competent department of engineering construction shall, in accordance with their duties, perform their duties of industry supervision, and supervise the cases of wage arrears of migrant workers caused by illegal contracting, subcontracting, illegal subcontracting, linking, and arrears of project funds.

The development and reform department is responsible for the examination and approval management of government investment projects according to its responsibilities, examines the sources of funds and financing methods of government investment projects according to law, arranges government investment in a timely manner according to regulations, strengthens the construction of social credit system, and organizes joint disciplinary targets for wage arrears and dishonesty of migrant workers according to laws and regulations to limit and punish them.

The financial department is responsible for the budget management of government investment funds, and timely and fully allocates government investment funds in accordance with the approved budget.

The public security organs are responsible for promptly accepting and investigating criminal cases suspected of refusing to pay labor remuneration, and handling social security cases caused by wage arrears of migrant workers according to law.

Judicial administration, natural resources, people's bank, auditing, state-owned assets management, taxation, market supervision, financial supervision and other departments shall, in accordance with their duties, do a good job in ensuring the payment of wages for migrant workers.

The above knowledge is my answer to relevant legal questions. According to reports, this regulation is designed for the special group of migrant workers and the key issue of wage arrears, and it will raise the mature and effective measures in practice for many years to legal norms.