Protection and compensation
"There is no proper legal compensation for death from overwork," says Huang Leping, director of Beijing Yilian Legal Aid and Research Center of Labor. According to the Regulation on Work-related Injury Insurances, if an employee dies in harness or of an occupational disease, his/her death can be regarded as work-related.
In such cases, a victim's family members can seek compensation from the employer. But because of lack of a specific law, seldom does a victim's family get adequate compensation.
"Besides, most of the time, it is very hard to prove that a person died because of overwork. So the victim's family cannot even apply for compensation," Huang says.
"With more people dying from overwork, we suggest the authorities enact a law to treat such cases as work-related deaths to better protect workers' rights and legal interests," Huang says.
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