labor - Free legal aid for unpaid migrant workers

The Beijing Higher People's Court has removed an important barrier that stopped migrant workers from taking legal action against employers who have not paid their wages, Xinhua news agency reports. It obtain free legal aid, migrant workers had to obtain a document from their employer stating they were unable to paid for legal services.
Migrant workers can now freeze assets of their employer. The ruling is valid for all courts in the Beijing municipality. Often this kind of regulations also get introduced in other parts of the country in a later phase, but the article does not refer to that yet.