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Industrial Injury Cases

Sichuan Miner left alone to Die in Poverty

China Labour Bulletin is helping a retired miner in Sichuan with third-stage pneumoconiosis sue for work-related illness compensation after his boss, a local coal baron and parliamentarian, refused any payment. The trial began on 11 September 2008 at the Qu County People’s Court with the exchange of evidence.

Deng Wenping's case

In November 1997, Deng Wenping, a migrant worker from Sichuan province, got a job as a gem cutter at a factory owned by Perfect Gem & Pearl Manufacturing Co, a Hong Kong-invested enterprise in Boluo county, Huizhou city, Guangdong province. After falling seriously ill, Deng was admitted to the Guangdong Occupational Disease Hospital in December 2000. The Guangdong Province Occupational Illness Diagnosis and Appraisal Committee subsequently diagnosed him with stage II silicosis.

Zhang Guangli's Case

Zhang Guangli was a worker at the No. 1 Steel Plant operated by Angang New Steel Co Ltd., a subsidiary of the Angang Steel Group in Anshan city, Liaoning province. On 23 April 1993, Zhang had four fingers and the skin on the thumb of his left hand torn off while operating a machine at work.

The Lu Family Case

In June 2000, Lu Hongfu (then aged 28) got a job at a Sino-Japanese joint venture in the city of Yixing in Jiangsu called Qingxing Powder Machinery Co., Ltd. doing odd jobs in a chemical micropowders workshop and working as an assistant painter. A year after he started working at the company, Lu began to suffer from dizzy spells, vomiting, bleeding gums and other symptoms.

Compensation for Work-related Injury and Occupational Disease in China

Before employees can make a claim for work-related injury or occupational disease compensation at their local Labour Dispute Arbitration Committee (LDAC), their degree of disability has been assessed and officially certified by the Labour Appraisal Committee. There are ten grades of disability, determined by the Standard Assessment of the Seriousness of Work-related Injuries and Occupational Diseases (zhigong gongshang yu zhigong bingzhican chengdu jianding biaozhun) issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in 1996.

Silicosis Cases

CLB assisted seven groups of jewellery workers from Guangdong province to seek full and proper compensation from their former employers after they contracted silicosis – a chronic and ultimately fatal disease – because the employers had failed to install proper ventilation equipment in the workplace. The lawyers whom CLB has arranged to pursue these cases have successfully negotiated surprisingly high compensation payments for several of the workers concerned, and several other collective compensation cases of this type are currently under litigation.

Coal Mine Cases

One of CLB's foremost priorities in our labour rights litigation work is to find ways to intervene on behalf of China's coal miners, who work daily in one of the most life-threatening environments imaginable. Each year, at least 6,000 miners lose their lives in China as a result of preventable gas explosions and underground flooding.

Migrant Workers start to win significant compensation awards in the courts

Migrant workers, for a long time the most marginalized and discriminated group in the Chinese workforce, are now using the legal system to fight back and some are winning notable victories in the courts

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