What Does a Building Foreman Do?

The foreman is the lead worker. Responsible to the owner. In the old Chinese industrial and mining enterprises, capitalists used low-level managers to rule workers. Its power is to assign tasks to workers, pay wages, and supervise workers 'labor. ^ Foremen in some capitalist countries have higher wages and have become workers' nobility. On the one hand, they depend on capitalists for their survival, and on the other hand they rely on the power of capitalists to oppress and exploit workers. ^[1]

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Foreman-noun, personal pronoun.

The foreman is the foreman in English, that is, the person who leads and supervises the labor of the worker.

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The migrant workers recruited by the foremen are usually their own villagers. There are many advantages to working in a fellow villager. First, it is easier to communicate. When talking together in the hometown, the barriers between them are naturally reduced; Help cope; the third is

Twenty years of sadness and joy, the "contractor" is about to end. Image source: Beijing Modern Business News

The foreman is a product of "deformation" caused by market irregularities.

In 1992, Zhu Mengyi, who started as a contractor in Guangzhou, set up Hesheng Chuangzhan in Hong Kong; Yan Jiehe started from a contractor ^[4] , and registered the Pacific Engineering Company in 1995. The former contractor became the current rich, and also made the word "contractor" synonymous with the rapid accumulation of wealth.

How to find the "middleman" becomes the "top priority" of the contractor. This determines whether the contractor can "package" the project. The middleman is also the person in charge of an engineering project. These people have work and others, but because they belong to a regular construction company, the amount of money that can fall into their own hands for a project is very limited, so these "middlemen" usually choose subcontracting (that is, small contractors) With companies that supply building materials, choose some reliable and high rebate companies to cooperate with.

At the same time, the number of rural migrant workers has skyrocketed. The labor market is starting to become oversupplied. Some developers subcontract some or all of the project to one or several construction companies, and the construction company subcontracts the project to multiple contractor foremen, so a large project will have more than 10 contractor teams working together at the same time, and these individuals Contract labor teams are generally anchored under some large construction companies, but they only pay a certain amount of management fees each year without substantial jurisdiction. As a result, construction units defaulted on wages, and contractor heads deducted or owed wages to migrant workers. And the news of the fight between the contractor and the migrant workers and the collective petition of the migrant workers began to appear on the front pages of major newspapers, especially at the end of the year, which became a hot topic of public opinion.

What cannot be denied is the fact that the "foreman" is still one of the hotspots complained about and the subject of wage arrears in the construction labor market. In 2006, the Ministry of Construction decided to use three years to establish a basic and standardized construction labor contracting system throughout the country. "Foreman" will be replaced by "Labour Representative".