Occupational disease
China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-10 07:50
It is an outrage.
More than 100 migrant workers who have been diagnosed as suffering from pneumoconiosis because they worked as dynamiters for more than a decade cannot be certified as having the disease by the occupational disease prevention hospital in Shenzhen. The hospital refused to diagnose and certify their occupational disease because they don't have a labor contract with their employers or relevant documents from their employers.
The hospital is not to blame as the law on occupational disease prevention stipulates that one must have a labor contract and documents from the employer to have an occupational disease checked and certified in such a specialized hospital.
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