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Occupational disease compensation a focus for lawmakers
By Pan Zheng |
March 3, 2011, Thursday
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INFORMATION from the Ministry of Health shows that as many as 200 million Chinese workers are suffering occupational diseases and nearly 40 percent of them have not got any compensation for their diseases.
After media reports about iPhone workers in a Suzhou factory suffering chemical poisoning and migrant workers in a Gansu coal mine plagued by pneumoconiosis, the amendment of China's Law on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases will be discussed at this year's session of the National People's Congress, Beijing-based Procuratorial Daily reported.
Beijing Yilian Labor Law Aid & Research Center polled 1,026 patients of occupational diseases across the country and found 37.8 percent of them did not get any kind of compensation from their employers.
"There're too many procedures to get compensation for occupational diseases and one obstacle can ruin the whole effort," a researcher named Ye Mingxin said.
The procedures include obtaining a diagnosis by an authorized hospital or institute, administrative appeal, ability evaluation, labor dispute arbitration and civil lawsuit. Under the current law, it may take more than 1,300 days to go through all the procedures for some cases.
"The revision of the Law on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases is aimed at simplifying the procedures and defining the roles of supervision departments," said Huang Leping, director of Yilian Labor Law Aid & Research Center. "The government should take more responsibility to help those suffering from occupational diseases."
After media reports about iPhone workers in a Suzhou factory suffering chemical poisoning and migrant workers in a Gansu coal mine plagued by pneumoconiosis, the amendment of China's Law on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases will be discussed at this year's session of the National People's Congress, Beijing-based Procuratorial Daily reported.
Beijing Yilian Labor Law Aid & Research Center polled 1,026 patients of occupational diseases across the country and found 37.8 percent of them did not get any kind of compensation from their employers.
"There're too many procedures to get compensation for occupational diseases and one obstacle can ruin the whole effort," a researcher named Ye Mingxin said.
The procedures include obtaining a diagnosis by an authorized hospital or institute, administrative appeal, ability evaluation, labor dispute arbitration and civil lawsuit. Under the current law, it may take more than 1,300 days to go through all the procedures for some cases.
"The revision of the Law on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases is aimed at simplifying the procedures and defining the roles of supervision departments," said Huang Leping, director of Yilian Labor Law Aid & Research Center. "The government should take more responsibility to help those suffering from occupational diseases."
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