16 january 2013
BEIJING — The government will carry out a campaign to prevent wage defaults for migrantworkers from rural areas, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said Thursday.
The ministry will enhance its efforts to solve disputes involving overdue wages for migrantworkers and use information technology to make labor arbitration more efficient, ministryspokesman Yin Chengji said at a press conference.
Labor arbitration centers investigated 479,000 labor disputes involving 660,000 workers in thefirst nine months, up 11.9 percent and 19.4 percent year on year, respectively, according todata from the ministry.
Among these cases, 457,000 have been settled, the ministry’s figures showed.
During the same period, labor departments inspected 1.5 million employers to find and redresslabor problems involving 85 million employees.
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