Chapter 1071: Chapter 347: A Shocking Case_3
Moreover, this kind of life is truly too tornting.
“Now then, tell everything you know about the situation. Rember, you must speak the truth. If you lie, I won’t help you,” Lawyer Tang continued.
Lin Nannan’s mother nodded and began to recount the story.
Lawyer Tang listened quietly. The situation was roughly the sa as what Lin Nannan had described in her private ssage, but there was an additional detail.
“Are you saying that at the ti, Hanxi Construction Group Company conducted an accident investigation? Do you have the investigation report now?”
Lin Nannan’s mother shook her head and said, “We don’t have that investigation report. We just heard them ntion it before. They said another worker was welding, and a spark flew into the box my husband was working on, igniting the paint and causing the explosion or sothing…”
Lawyer Tang nodded and then asked, “Then can you tell why you didn’t call the police after the incident?”
This was a very important question. Logically, even if the companies were unwilling to report it to the authorities, as the family mbers of the victim, it should have been easy for them to call the police.
The two people exchanged glances, and finally, Lin Nannan’s mother began to speak. “Lawyer Tang, at the ti, I was working at ho when a friend of my husband, who was working alongside him, suddenly called saying sothing had happened to him.”
“I rushed over there, and when I arrived, soone told not to call the police. They said they were willing to compensate us, and later they did give us… fifty thousand yuan.”
“We thought they were really taking responsibility. The money was all spent at the hospital, but after the money ran out, no one cared about us anymore. That’s when we started realizing there was a problem.”
“When we tried to report it to the police later, they said it was too late to investigate, but they’d forward it to the relevant departnts. Yet, to this day, we’ve heard nothing.”
The truth is, a family like this simply doesn’t have the ti to chase down governnt departnts every day for a result. Afterward, everyone went back to Handong, and there was even less hope for progress.
Most likely, the company that paid them considered the paynt a settlent fee.
Why is it that in so people’s eyes, they’d rather deal with fatalities than situations like Lin Youliang’s? Because such situations make the financial settlent unpredictable.
When soone dies, things are easier—they just pay a lump sum to satisfy the family.
But in cases of injury, dical expenses beco a huge cost. When disabilities are involved, it’s even harder to resolve, and additional compensation might be required down the line.
Repeated efforts were starting to wear on Lawyer Tang. He closed his eyes for a mont before saying, “Have you ever considered applying for work injury recognition in cases like this?”
Although it’s unclear right now what the subcontracting relationships were in this case, judging by the involvent of a contractor, there’s a one hundred percent chance of illegal subcontracting issues.
Even though regulations prohibit illegal subcontracting, in practice, most projects violate this rule.
At this mont, the two were completely bewildered.
“Huh? Lawyer Tang, can we apply for work injury recognition? We asked those people before, and they said my husband was working under the contractor, just in a labor relationship. So they said he couldn’t apply for work injury recognition…”
Upon hearing this, Lawyer Tang asked again, “And you haven’t consulted a lawyer?”
“We did think about consulting a lawyer, but lawyers charge consultation fees, and there’s no way our family could afford that…”
“For cases like yours, you can apply for legal aid… Didn’t you know? Lin Nannan, since you know , haven’t you co across anything like this while browsing online?”
Lin Nannan shook her head in response. She was only in eighth grade this year.
Looking at the confused expressions of the two people in front of him, Lawyer Tang sighed. Public education on legal matters still needed improvent. Otherwise, people wouldn’t even know when they’d been deceived or how they’d been deceived.
“What was the specific date of the incident?”
After learning the date, Lawyer Tang calculated carefully and then said, “It’s already been over three hundred days; thankfully, it’s still within the tifra. We need to act quickly.”
When an accident occurs, the employer has one month to apply for work injury recognition. If the employer doesn’t apply, close relatives, the union, etc., can apply within one year.
Once a year has passed, applications are no longer possible, aning you lose your right to relief in this area entirely.
It sounds harsh, but that’s the reality. That’s why, when it cos to certain laws and regulations—especially those related to labor disputes—it’s always better to know more.
But the companies that deceive people are truly disgusting. They prey on people’s lack of legal knowledge, tricking as many as they can.
Right now, the priority is to quickly apply for work injury recognition!
Then, it’s ti to properly deal with those companies.
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