The Eighth National Migrant Worker Work Inspection Carried Out Comprehensively

In order to implement the spirit of the "Opinions of the State Council on Further Improving Services for Migrant Workers" (Guo Fa [2014] No. 40), the State Council Leading Group on Migrant Worker Work organized and carried out the eighth migrant worker work inspection nationwide from mid-November to mid-December. On the basis of self-inspection by each province (region, municipality), 6 inspection teams were formed, led by vice-ministerial-level leaders from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the State Administration of Work Safety, and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, with the participation of office members or liaison officers from the 30 member units of the leading group, and conducted joint inspections of Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hunan, Beijing, and Guizhou respectively. The inspection focused on the following:

First, the situation of stabilizing and expanding migrant workers' employment and entrepreneurship. Strengthening the construction of the public employment service system, improving and implementing policies and measures for migrant workers' entrepreneurship, and carrying out entrepreneurship training and entrepreneurship services for migrant workers, etc.

Second, the situation of strengthening vocational skills training for migrant workers. Implementing the guiding opinions of the General Office of the State Council on further improving migrant worker training work, implementing the migrant worker vocational skills upgrading plan, and accelerating the development of vocational education for the new generation of rural labor force, etc.

Third, the situation of safeguarding migrant workers' labor rights and interests, especially the situation of clearing up wage arrears owed to migrant workers. Implementing the "Interim Provisions on Labor Dispatch," standardizing labor employment management, and raising the rate of labor contract signing for migrant workers; implementing the migrant worker wage payment monitoring system and payment guarantee system, with emphasis on ensuring the payment of migrant workers' wages during New Year's Day and Spring Festival; strengthening work safety and occupational health protection for migrant workers, and strengthening labor security supervision and law enforcement, labor dispute mediation and arbitration, legal services, and legal aid, etc.

Fourth, the situation of expanding the coverage of social insurance for migrant workers. Merging and implementing the new rural social pension insurance and urban residents' social pension insurance systems, incorporating migrant workers who have signed labor contracts into employee medical insurance in accordance with the law, bringing more eligible migrant workers into the coverage of unemployment insurance, and promoting the participation of migrant workers in high-risk enterprises such as mining and construction in work-related injury insurance; doing a good job in the transfer and continuation of basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance relationships, etc.

⟦NL> Fifth, the situation of promoting migrant workers' equal enjoyment of basic urban public services. Fully incorporating the compulsory education of eligible migrant workers' accompanying children into regional education development plans and the scope of financial guarantees, and doing a good job in enabling migrant workers' accompanying children to take entrance examinations locally after receiving compulsory education; promoting the equal enjoyment of basic medical, health, and family planning services by migrant workers and their accompanying family members alongside urban residents, and ensuring that eligible accompanying children of migrant workers enjoy vaccination services on an equal basis; further improving the housing security system and improving migrant workers' housing conditions through multiple channels; strengthening the construction of comprehensive service platforms for migrant workers, etc.

Sixth, the situation of promoting migrant workers' settlement in cities and towns. Implementing the opinions on further advancing the reform of the household registration system, and, in accordance with the basic requirements of having lawful and stable employment and lawful and stable residence and the comprehensive carrying capacity of cities, promoting more eligible and willing migrant workers to settle in cities and towns, and safeguarding migrant workers' rights and interests in land contracting, etc.

Seventh, the situation of promoting migrant workers' social integration. Establishing an integrated urban-rural education and management system for migrant worker Party and League members; promoting migrant workers' joining of trade unions; incorporating migrant workers into the urban public cultural service system; strengthening humanistic care for migrant workers; carrying out new citizen training to improve the overall quality of migrant workers; and doing a good job in caring for left-behind children, left-behind women, and left-behind elderly people in rural areas, etc.

Eighth, the situation of strengthening organizational leadership for migrant worker work. Improving the coordination mechanism for migrant worker work, increasing funding input for public services for migrant workers, and improving the overall coordination capacity of migrant worker work coordination bodies. Studying, publicizing, and implementing the "Opinions of the State Council on Further Improving Services for Migrant Workers," etc.

Comrade Yang Zhiming, Director of the Office of the State Council Leading Group on Migrant Worker Work, emphasized that this inspection adopted a combination of key inspections and random spot checks, and a combination of open inspections and unannounced visits, going deep into communities, townships, enterprises, and other front lines to conduct on-site investigations, listen to work reports, and hold exchanges and discussions with grassroots migrant worker workers and migrant worker representatives. Each inspection team must strictly observe the Central Committee's eight-point regulations on improving work style and maintaining close ties with the masses and the relevant provisions on improving Party conduct and building a clean government, and be honest and self-disciplined. It is necessary to persist in going deep into the grassroots, deep into reality, and deep among migrant workers to ensure that the inspection work does not become a mere formality.