On February 9, 2021, He Hanliang, a cement worker in Chenxi County, Hunan Province, who was unsuccessful in demanding 10,000 yuan for his work, brutally killed the foreman’s three young sons and caused serious injuries to the foreman’s wife. Screenshot of video
The Xin Guan (Chinese Communist Party virus) Epidemic has caused China’s economy to deteriorate, and the phenomenon of workers’ wage claims around the country before the Spring Festival in the past has become more prominent this year. Officials are trying to curb mass incidents by introducing harsh laws to prevent or even arrest people to suppress them, while workers facing desperate situations are protesting with death or retaliating with more drastic means.
In Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, a painter at the Longnu Temple committed suicide by taking poison because he was not paid by the temple. Before he committed suicide, he recorded a video complaining about the inaction of officials, telling that he had sought help from the local labor bureau and several government departments, but no one was willing to assist, so in desperation he chose to die to escape his plight. Local media sources said that after the case, the authorities quickly blocked the news and covered up the relevant information. The Life of the painter is still unknown.
On February 8, 2021, a painter at Chenzhou Longnu Temple in Hunan Province committed suicide by consuming pesticide at the temple. (Video screenshot)
In addition, He Hanliang, a worker in Chenxi County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, took revenge on the foreman’s Family for unsuccessful efforts to collect 10,000 yuan in wages. Officials reported that two deaths and two injuries had been caused, and the dead included the foreman’s young children. The murderer has been arrested.
So far, both Zhejiang and Hunan have refused to comment publicly. Our correspondent has repeatedly called the National Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, but the agency is on vacation.
Mr. Li, who is concerned about labor rights, pointed out that in the mainland, the arbitrary distortion of the Labor Law and the inaction of functional departments, even collusion between government and business, are the root causes of the tragic wage claims.
Mr. Li said: Yesterday I received several calls a day to collect wages. By definition, according to the administrative regulations previously enacted, each project it has a bond for workers’ wages. However, as far as I know, the so-called security deposit, it is false, that is, at first you may need to play a certain amount of money to the account, and then through a certain relationship this money out again with. This is the collusion between the government and business, there is this problem.
Media person Chen Hongtao also pointed out that the official recently blacklisted the rights workers as troublemakers, and the continuous tragedies mean that the laborers at the bottom have reached an unbearable point. If such a situation is not improved, the consequences will be even more serious.
Chen Hongtao said: in Shenzhen, there has long been this kind of operation, the labor inspection department they have an internal control of the kind of similar blacklist, you the worker, let’s say within a year, repeatedly appear to apply for labor arbitration ah or something, it put you on a blacklist, on your restrictions, and even from the law, on your sanctions. On the one hand, the workers and farmers at the bottom, through their labor to the so-called economic growth, ah, to provide security. But the workers are not even guaranteed the income from their labor. If they continue to dump the laborers, then this kind of human tragedy, only more and more.
The blacklist mentioned by Chen Hongtao refers to the official notification recently that laborers will be blacklisted if they have complained to the same labor inspection department more than 10 times and to different labor inspection departments more than 15 times within three years, as well as applied for arbitration in the same labor arbitration court five times and to different arbitration courts eight times within three years.
Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, released the identity of the province’s first blacklisted person on Monday (8), Hu Xingrong, a 50-year-old worker from Renhe Township, Dazhu County, Sichuan Province. In addition, on Saturday (6), Gansu Province’s Gannan Prefecture also released news that a contractor who climbed a tower to collect construction fees was detained for 10 days, and stressed that it would treat people who use jumping from buildings, towers or violent extremes to collect wages with “zero tolerance”. The official notification from both places immediately triggered public criticism.
The living environment for Chinese workers has always been harsh, but officials have been publicly promoting the prohibition of malicious non-payment of wages by employers in order to demonstrate their stance on protecting workers. But this year, in a reversal of the norm, for the first Time, officials around the country have openly promoted crackdowns on wage earners, commenting that in a deteriorating economy, officials have tacitly allowed companies to squeeze the bottom of the workforce in harsher ways to save costs.
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