Reports indicate migrant workers go unpaid
17 August 2005
Migrant workers often go unpaid for their labor, state media reported, citing two surveys released. In 2004 alone, unpaid wages totaled nearly US$2.5bn and a quarter of 3,288 migrant workers questioned said they were not fully paid, according to the National Economic Research Institute survey. In Beijing, US$375m was owed last year to 700,000 laborers working on construction sites, the Ministry of Labor and Social security survey said.
