2026-10-16
On October 16, lawyer Cai Yaqi read a viewer's letter on Bilibili. The writer identified himself as a frontline labor law enforcement officer in Shandong, saying that a boss owing unpaid wages had shouted, "What do these workers count as?" The local labor inspection team was abolished during institutional reform, has no authorized staffing and cannot recruit new staff, and the governance of wage arrears actually serves a stability-maintenance function.