“Optimizing the business environment under the rule of law to help employees in difficulty in enterprises to seek wages and protect their rights” – Xing’an League Legal Aid in Action

Beginning in mid-March 2022, the Hinggan League Legal Aid Center will be Within the scope of the organization, the legal aid activities of “optimizing the legalized business environment to help enterprises-related employees in difficulty protect their rights” were organized and carried out.

Xing’an League Legal Aid Center always regards safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the poor as the starting point and end point of legal aid work, and actively urges Legal aid institutions in various regions have carefully reviewed and rectified the problems existing in the institutions, and comprehensively deepened legal aid services for the public. Continue to carry out normalized legal aid services for employees in need of private enterprises and migrant workers to safeguard their rights, further open up green channels, fully implement the “Legal Aid Economic Difficulty Notification and Commitment System”, and implement “one exemption, one simple and three expresses” (ie: exemption from economic status review) , simplify the acceptance and review procedures, quick acceptance, quick review, and quick assignment) measures; and provide “three excellent and one high” convenience services, especially for difficult workers or migrant workers who are disabled due to work, adopt priority reception, priority processing, priority designation mode, and proactively provide door-to-door services to those with disabilities. Up to now, the Xing’an League Legal Aid Agency has accepted 52 cases involving wage demands and rights protection of employees in difficulty and migrant workers, with 165 recipients and a case amount of more than 5.3 million yuan. Adhere to the satisfaction of the masses as an important indicator to test the results of the large-scale discussion activities, further improve the evaluation mechanism for legal aid reception services, take measures to print and distribute the “Legal Aid Reception Service Evaluation Form”, and require the staff and duty lawyers of legal aid agencies across the league to accept . In the process of reviewing assistance matters, actively accept the evaluation and supervision of the visiting parties. Up to now, the All-League Legal Aid Agency has issued a total of 130 service evaluation forms and provided nearly 500 free consultation services.

Completely implement the system of accepting vacancies and fully implement the “Legal Aid Economic Difficulty Notification and Commitment” mechanism. If the basic conditions are met, the main materials Legal aid matters that are complete and meet the statutory conditions, but lack other materials or formalities, will be accepted if the parties promise to supplement them. Especially in emergency situations or special cases such as the statute of limitations is about to expire and immediate preservation measures need to be taken, legal aid is provided for the recipients first. Closely combined with the relevant requirements for legal aid to enter enterprises in the legal aid “five entry” activities, fully mobilize the resources of legal aid agency personnel, social practice lawyers, grass-roots legal service workers and other resources, effectively give full play to the professional advantages of legal talents, and actively carry out legal aid publicity work . Legal aid agencies in various regions are required to arrange full-time lawyers and staff to visit local factories, enterprises, and construction sites, and focus on publicizing laws and regulations such as the Legal Aid Law, the Law on the Protection of Labor Rights and Interests, and the Regulations on Safeguarding the Payment of Migrant Workers, so as to keep abreast of the demands of employees of private enterprises. Comprehensively provide free legal consultation, proxy and litigation agency and other legal aid services, fully stimulate workers’ awareness of rights protection, and comprehensively expand the social influence and public awareness of legal aid. Up to now, the Xinggan League Legal Aid Agency has visited 19 enterprises, factories and individual industrial and commercial households, and has provided more than 300 people-times to publicize the law and provide other legal services.

Xing’an League Legal Aid Center will continue to deepen the results of the “big discussion” activity, focusing on the following aspects: The assistance service guarantees the function of people’s livelihood, and continues to carry out the “Legal Aid Benefiting People’s Livelihood” brand activity. When accepting and assigning assistance cases, it will “do all the aid and give all the aid” to enhance the public’s sense of identity with judicial administrative organs. Continue to play the role of legal aid in maintaining social stability, and promote the people to protect their rights in a lawful and rational manner. We will make every effort to promote the standardization and full coverage of legal aid workstations in law firms, promote the early intervention of legal aid when conflicts and disputes occur, and strive to help enterprise-related employees and migrant workers choose the most reasonable dispute resolution method to safeguard their rights within the legal framework. Continue to play the role of legal aid relief and guarantee, and promote judicial and administrative organs to reduce the cost of social governance. Strict the relevant provisions of the “Legal Aid Law”, relax the standard of economic hardship according to the law, scientifically lower the threshold of legal aid, and comprehensively expand the scope of aid items, so that groups such as employees of enterprises involved in economic difficulties and migrant workers can enter at “zero cost” or “low cost”. Normal dispute relief channels, and earnestly safeguard and protect their legitimate rights and interests.