Company inspections to ensure migrants receive wages on time

BEIJING - China's top labor official has ordered local human resources and social security departments to make sure migrant workers are paid on time before the upcoming New Year and Spring Festival holidays.

Speaking at a meeting on Monday, Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, said the departments should conduct strict company inspections to ensure migrant workers' pay is not delayed.

Enterprises in the construction industry and those in the labor-intensive manufacturing sector, which absorb most of the migrant workers, will be targeted to ensure workers receive their full wages, he said.