Treat workers not paid as creditors

Sad stories about migrant workers continue to occupy media headlines. On Monday, a 14-year-old girl fell to her death at an under-construction mansion in Jizhou, Hebei province, where she had gone to get her father's and other migrant workers' wage arrears. And a few days ago, a woman was reportedly beaten to death at a police station in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, for demanding her wages.

The authorities have taken all sorts of measures to help migrant workers get their wages on time. The measures include regulations that hold companies that deliberately avoid paying workers' wages criminally liable to face charges. But still many workers are denied their wages, with some becoming victims of fatal brawls.

Some people say employers continue to victimize migrant workers because they know the latter don't have easy access to financial and legal resources to safeguard their rights and interests.