Govt help urged to ensure migrants' pay

BEIJING Grassroots authorities have been told to improve their handling of labor disputes to ensure the country's 240 million migrant workers are paid in time for the lunar new year.

Chunjie, or Spring Festival, is the time when most low-paid laborers collect their wages and head back to their families in the countryside.

However, a recent survey by an NGO affiliated with Peking University showed that 41.2 percent of construction workers have at some point seen their payment delayed - sometimes indefinitely.