Why didn't the contractor pay the wages of migrant workers on time?

Many people don't know much about construction workers, so they don't understand why there are jobs that don't pay a monthly salary, so many people are rushing to do it.

Because the main body of construction workers are older migrant workers and uneducated middle-aged people. They are abandoned by factories and most jobs because of age, education level and other factors, and can only engage in the hardest and most unsafe construction industry.

They are at the bottom of society. In order to earn money to support their families, the so-called hard-earned money is their only way out.

But this is a job that doesn't get paid by the month. In most construction industries, either the settlement is unified at the end of the year, or the wheat harvest is returned home in autumn. The boss gives a symbolic toll, and generally gives a living allowance at most.

Migrant workers can't get their wages, so they are black-hearted contractors. I believe people in the industry do not accept this conclusion.

The deep reason why migrant workers can't get paid monthly is not that the boss deceives migrant workers' brothers. It is the chaos in the construction industry that causes migrant workers and contractors to become the last vulnerable groups.

At present, in many local government projects, the successful bidders are all construction enterprises with Chinese prefix. However, these well-known central enterprises have started the business of "second-hand dealers".

The central enterprises with prefix are only responsible for receiving projects. After receiving the project, it will be handed over to the local construction company, which will subcontract it layer by layer. The last workers are self-employed contractors and migrant workers without any contract constraints.

Layers of subcontracting, layers of dividends, top central enterprises do nothing, change hands to earn 7% management fees, and all the issues of advance payment and management are handed over to the following construction companies. In the end, the big enterprises that don't work earn a lot of money, and the contractor bears all the risks. They also need to support workers' wages. Finally, they had to look at the face above and made hard money.

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Even some local projects that don't need the participation of big companies at all often end up in the hands of Chinese prefix enterprises. On every large construction site around us, the names of construction enterprises are China Railway, China Construction, China Light and Power, China Metallurgical and so on. But it has nothing to do with them except the seal on the contract.

The biggest profits are given to "second-hand dealers", so that those who work hard have no money to take them. This kind of chaos is staged every day. What local governments want is face, and what central enterprises want is "lining". Everyone wants what they want and everyone is happy.

Therefore, if migrant workers want to earn a monthly salary like office workers, they need to start with rectifying the chaos in the construction industry. Local projects should be handed over to the final construction manager, not subcontracted layer by layer. People who really do projects have greater profits, and they can better safeguard the interests of migrant workers.

If this kind of chaos is not fundamentally changed, it is tantamount to finding a fish from a tree by punishing the contractor to realize the monthly salary of construction workers.

Migrant workers also have families to support, mortgages to pay, and children's tuition fees. Not getting paid at the end of the year is not only a shame for the construction industry, but also a heartbreak for migrant workers.

Just solving the problem of subcontracting at different levels is not enough to solve the financial dilemma of migrant workers' wages. Local projects are not approved or built, and it is almost common to default on project funds. Although there are contractual constraints, Party A's power is above everything else, and the construction company dares to say and do it. It has almost become the practice of the construction industry to demand the construction progress in arrears.

As long as the employer can settle the project payment on time, there is no reason for construction enterprises to default on the wages of migrant workers, and the monthly salary system will be smooth. But the question is who will restrain this kind of project payment default behavior?

There is still a lot of work to be done before good suggestions are put into practice. Migrant workers get a monthly salary, first of all, we must stop the bad style of the construction industry!