As the year winds down, Beijing is stepping up efforts to tackle delayed payments for migrant workers and protect the interests of the nation’s grass-roots workforce, aiming to maintain social stability in turbulent economic times.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, held a meeting on Tuesday to advance an action plan aimed at addressing arrears in the wages of migrant workers after a three-month dedicated campaign kicked off on November 1.
“[We] need to resolutely take up the political responsibility of managing wage arrears and consider the settlement of the issue an extremely important livelihood task,” said a post-meeting statement.
“The objective is to firmly prevent any major mass incidents or vicious extreme events triggered by wage arrears, to safeguard the basic livelihood of the people, and to maintain social harmony and stability,” the campaign notice stated.
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According to the notice, construction projects by government and state-owned enterprises are considered primary areas of focus in wage-arrear issues. And officials have been authorised to use “non-routine methods” to resolve all verified cases before the Lunar New Year, which falls on January 29.
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