CCTV News:Recently, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the National Development and Reform Commission’s Work Plan on Vigorously Implementing Work-for-Relief in Key Projects to Promote Local People’s Employment and Income Increase, which put forward 12 policy measures in four aspects. Focusing on government investment projects, focusing on seven major construction areas. On the premise of ensuring the quality and safety of the project and meeting the schedule requirements, and in accordance with the principle of "all applications can be exhausted", we will fully tap the employment potential of the main project construction and ancillary temporary facilities, site service guarantee, post-construction management and protection, and promote the implementation of government-invested key projects in seven construction areas, such as transportation, water conservancy, energy, agriculture and rural areas, urban construction, ecological environment and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. Relevant departments have made clear the construction tasks and employment links of key projects in various fields.
The General Office of the State Council forwarded the notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on vigorously implementing the work plan to promote local people’s employment and income increase in key projects.
Guo ban Han [2022] No.58
People’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, ministries and commissions and institutions directly under the State Council:
The National Development and Reform Commission’s "Work Plan on Vigorously Implementing Work-for-Relief in Key Projects to Promote Local People’s Employment and Income Increase" has been approved by the State Council and is hereby forwarded to you. Please implement it carefully.
the General Office of the State Council
July 5, 2022
(This piece is publicly released)
On vigorously implementing the work plan of replacing work with relief to promote the employment and income increase of local people in key projects
National Development and Reform Commission
Work-for-relief is an important policy to promote people’s employment nearby and increase their income and improve their labor skills. It can provide jobs for people, especially migrant workers and people out of poverty, and it is an important way to improve the income distribution system and support people to create a happy life through labor. Key projects have large investment scale, wide benefits, strong driving effect, and great employment potential to attract local people, which is an important carrier for the implementation of work-based relief. Vigorously implementing work-for-relief in key projects is not only an important measure to promote effective investment, stabilize employment and protect people’s livelihood, stimulate county consumption and stabilize the economic market, but also an effective means to promote people to share the fruits of reform and development and improve the quality of workers. We should adhere to the guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, make overall plans for development and safety, promote high-quality development, further expand the scale of work-for-relief investment, and give full play to the role of work-for-relief policy. In order to implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the following work plan is formulated to vigorously implement work-for-relief in key projects to promote local people’s employment and income.
First, the scope of implementation objects
(a) to promote the implementation of government investment in key projects. When planning and implementing key projects invested by the government, all regions and departments should properly handle the relationship between project construction and promoting local people’s employment and income increase, profoundly grasp the original intention of the policy of replacing relief with work, and fully tap the employment potential of the main project construction and ancillary temporary facilities, site service guarantee, post-construction management and protection in accordance with the principle of "all applications can be exhausted" and the needs of local people for work. On the basis of balancing the relationship between the labor contract system and the work-for-relief service in the construction industry, we should try our best to help local people to work nearby to increase their employment. Encourage non-government investment in key projects to actively adopt the way of work instead of relief to expand employment capacity.
(two) clear implementation of work-for-relief construction areas and the scope of key projects. The transportation field mainly includes high-speed railway, general-speed railway, intercity and municipal (suburban) railways, urban rail transit, expressways, highways along the border, port and shipping facilities, airports, comprehensive transportation and logistics hubs, etc. The field of water conservancy mainly includes reservoir construction, new construction and supporting transformation of large and medium-sized irrigation areas, and flood control of rivers. The energy field mainly includes electricity, oil and gas pipelines and renewable energy. Agricultural and rural areas mainly include high-standard farmland, modern agricultural industrial parks and other industrial infrastructure, rural human settlements improvement, agricultural non-point source pollution control and so on. The fields of urban construction mainly include urban renewal, urban underground utility tunnel, urban drainage and waterlogging prevention, aging renovation of urban gas pipelines, affordable housing, strengths and weaknesses of county towns, supporting infrastructure of industrial parks, urban sewage and garbage treatment facilities, and public service projects of education, health, culture, sports and tourism. The field of ecological environment mainly includes afforestation, desertification land control, degraded grassland control, comprehensive control of soil erosion and rocky desertification, protection and restoration of rivers, lakes and wetlands, accurate improvement of forest quality, and water ecological restoration. The field of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction mainly includes infrastructure recovery and reinforcement, production conditions recovery, living environment recovery and so on. The development and reform department shall, jointly with relevant departments, thoroughly study and formulate a catalogue of construction tasks and employment links that can be implemented in key projects in various fields.
Second, the key tasks
(three) the formation of the annual list of key projects for work relief. The State Council’s education, ecological environment, housing and urban-rural construction, transportation, water conservancy, agriculture and rural areas, culture and tourism, health and wellness, sports, energy, forestry and grass, rural revitalization and other relevant departments should, together with the development and reform departments, comprehensively consider the characteristics of engineering projects and the needs of local people for work, list key engineering projects that are suitable for work-based relief at the national level, and form an annual project list in different fields to guide local governments to establish local applications. All regions and departments should pay close attention to organizing the implementation of work-for-relief in key projects that will be started in 2022, focusing on construction tasks and employment links that are suitable for manual operation and labor-intensive.
(four) to mobilize local people to participate in the county-based organization. The owner units and construction units of key projects shall, according to the labor demand that can implement the work-for-relief construction tasks and employment links, make clear the requirements of jobs, quantity, time and labor skills that can be provided within the county where the project is located, and inform the relevant county-level people’s government of the employment plan. The people’s government at the county level where the project is located shall establish a labor communication and coordination mechanism with the employer and the construction unit, carry out policy propaganda and a thorough investigation of the labor situation in a timely manner, organize and mobilize the local rural labor force, the urban low-income population and the groups with employment difficulties to participate in the work, and give priority to attracting returning migrant workers, getting rid of poverty and preventing the monitoring objects from returning to poverty. Cultivate and expand labor service companies, labor cooperatives, village collective economic organizations, etc., and improve the degree of labor organization of local people. The project owner unit should supervise and guide the construction unit to do a good job in real-name system management such as contract signing, ledger registration and daily attendance of migrant workers.
(5) accurately train migrant workers. The people’s government at the county level where the project is located should co-ordinate all kinds of qualified training funds and resources, make full use of the project construction site, machinery and equipment, and take the form of "training+post" to jointly carry out labor skills training and safety production training with the construction unit. Explore and entrust secondary vocational and technical schools and technical colleges to carry out training to improve the operation skills and safety production knowledge of small and medium-sized mechanical equipment of local people. Relying on the implementation of work-for-relief special investment projects, we will carry out targeted labor skills training and safety production training to train skilled labor for key projects in advance.
(six) timely and full payment of labor remuneration. The relevant local people’s governments should urge the project construction unit to expand the employment position of "work for relief" as much as possible, reasonably determine the remuneration standard of "work for relief" and increase the scale of payment of labor remuneration as much as possible. The construction unit shall establish a unified and standardized employment roster and a ledger for payment of labor remuneration. After being signed and confirmed by the migrant workers, in principle, the labor remuneration will be paid to me through the bank card, and the ledger for payment of labor remuneration will be sent to the relevant departments at the county level for the record. Resolutely put an end to arrears, deductions, fraud and other acts in the process of payment of labor remuneration.
Third, strictly regulate management
(seven) the preliminary work of the project clearly defined the requirements of work for relief. In the feasibility study report or fund application report of key engineering projects, it is necessary to reflect the construction tasks and employment links that can implement work-for-relief in an appropriate form, and fully reflect the expected results of driving local people to increase employment and income and improve their skills in the social benefit evaluation part. The preliminary design report or construction drawing design documents should clearly define the specific construction tasks and employment links and the jobs that can be provided to the local area. Relevant departments should put forward relevant requirements for the project to absorb local people’s employment in the approval documents.
(eight) the project construction link compaction responsibility of all parties. The owner units of key engineering projects should specify the requirements for the payment of work-for-relief and labor remuneration in the process of design, bidding and tendering, and stipulate relevant responsibilities and obligations with the construction unit in the engineering service contract. The construction unit is responsible for the daily management of the workers who work for the relief at the construction site, and timely and fully pay the labor remuneration to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the workers. Supervision units should take the organization and management of work-for-work relief workers at the construction site and the payment of labor remuneration as important contents of project supervision.
(9) Strengthen the supervision of the whole chain and all fields before and after the event. Development and reform departments at all levels should, in conjunction with relevant departments and project owners, strengthen supervision and inspection of the implementation of work-for-relief for key projects around local migrant workers’ organizations, payment of labor remuneration, labor skills training and safety production training, and promptly urge rectification when problems are found. After the completion of the project, the project completion acceptance unit shall, jointly with the relevant departments, the owner unit, the construction unit and the people’s government at the county level where the project is located, evaluate the implementation of work-for-relief and take the evaluation results as an important reference for the project completion acceptance and audit final accounts.
Iv. organizational safeguard measures
(10) form a joint effort. Adhere to the overall planning of the central government, the coordination of provinces and departments, and the implementation of cities and counties. The National Development and Reform Commission should work with relevant departments to improve the coordination mechanism and make overall plans to promote the implementation of key projects. The people’s governments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should strengthen the organization and leadership and the allocation of work forces to ensure that the implementation of work-for-relief measures for national and provincial key projects is effective. The relevant municipal and county people’s governments should implement territorial responsibilities, strengthen communication and convergence with project owners and construction units, and do a good job in specific work such as the organization of work-for-relief workers, labor skills training and safety production training, and supervision of labor remuneration.
(eleven) increase investment. We will expand the scale of work-for-relief investment, implement a number of investment projects in the central budget for work-for-relief in the construction of supporting facilities for key projects, and increase the proportion of labor remuneration to more than 30% from the original 15%, and increase it as much as possible. Make use of the convergence of the central finance to promote rural revitalization grant funds (in the direction of work-for-relief tasks) to support the construction of qualified rural small-scale public welfare infrastructure. Local people’s governments at all levels should actively arrange special funds for work-based relief according to their own financial resources, and coordinate financial funds in related fields to increase investment in work-based relief. Encourage all kinds of financial institutions to increase financing support for the implementation of work-for-relief projects according to laws and regulations. Guide private enterprises, social organizations and other social forces to organize and implement public welfare projects by means of work instead of relief.
(12) Make a summary and evaluation. All localities and departments should strengthen the publicity and interpretation of the implementation of the work-for-relief policy in key projects, and sum up and popularize typical experiences and practices in a timely manner. The National Development and Reform Commission shall, jointly with relevant departments, establish and improve relevant work standard processes, regularly schedule the progress of work-for-relief work in key projects, and incorporate it into the comprehensive evaluation scope of the existing work-for-relief work. Relevant departments should incorporate the effectiveness of work-for-relief work in key projects in this field into the existing relevant assessment scope. Supervise and encourage places where the work is proactive and effective, and give inclined support by arranging special investment for work-for-relief and other means.