{"id":987522244,"date":"2021-05-14T03:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T02:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/casual-workers-clamor-for-better-insurance-coverage\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:23:58","slug":"casual-workers-clamor-for-better-insurance-coverage","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/casual-workers-clamor-for-better-insurance-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual workers clamor for better insurance coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lackluster insurance coverage of casual workers&nbsp;attracted the attention of Premier Li Keqiang during the annual gathering of the nation&#8217;s highest legislative body in March.<\/p>\n<p>Without work injury insurance, casual workers who suffer injuries face an uphill struggle to claim compensation from clients or their de facto employers: the internet-based platforms or brick-and-mortar agencies for whom they work.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the financially vulnerable workers have no employer to share the cost of social security contributions, which usually come as part of a pricy package that contains the pension fund, health and unemployment insurance and access to a subsidized mortgage rate. The package can cost at least 10,000 yuan a year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202105\/01\/WS608c98d4a31024ad0babba41_1.html\">click<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source and photo by&nbsp;Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lackluster insurance coverage of casual workers&nbsp;attracted the attention of Premier Li Keqiang during the annual gathering of the nation&#8217;s highest legislative body in March. Without work injury insurance, casual workers who suffer injuries face an uphill struggle to claim compensation from clients or their de facto employers: the internet-based platforms or brick-and-mortar agencies for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987530606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}