In recent years, the cement industry has entered a period of deep adjustment, and the bankruptcy cases of enterprises have come one after another. Every time an enterprise falls down, the reader can't help sighing with emotion: the enterprise can exit, but the compensation for the workers can't be less, and it is decent to have a good reunion. However, the reality is very skeletal.
For example, Sichuan Luding Shansheng Special Cement Co., Ltd. has formally entered the bankruptcy liquidation procedure recently. The company has been shut down for a long time, resulting in a large area of wage arrears and insurance arrears, and the number of cases involving litigation and enforcement has been increasing. The company has been in a state of loss, showing a serious insolvency situation, with external liabilities of about 450 million yuan, and all the main assets have been mortgaged, and the equity has been pledged. Every word in the
announcement is like a heavy hammer hitting the heart of the industry-this is more than a matter of Shansheng Special Cement? This is the most painful epitome of the "exit tide" in the cement industry- when an enterprise goes to the step of loss and bankruptcy, even the normal salary is an extravagant hope, how can we talk about dismissal compensation?
Bankrupt, is the debt owed to the employees still available?
First of all, the law is actually on the side of the workers. According to Article 113 of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law, after the bankruptcy property pays off the bankruptcy expenses and common interest debts, the wages, social security and compensation of employees rank first, and even taxes have to be ranked behind ; According to Articles 46 and 47 of the Labor Contract Law, if an enterprise is declared bankrupt and terminates its labor contract, it shall pay economic compensation, the standard of which is one month's salary for each full year of service. What is more intimate is that the creditor's rights of employees need not be declared, and the list can be made public after investigation and verification by the administrator. Judging from the provisions, it can not be said that legislators are not attentive to the beating of workers.
But the reality is cruel. The announcement of Shansheng Special Cement is very clear: all the main assets have been mortgaged and the equity has been pledged. According to Article 109 of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law, the creditor who enjoys the security right can be paid in priority on the collateral-that is to say, the surplus after the disposal of the collateral can enter the "bankruptcy property" plate for the distribution of employees. Assets are fully mortgaged, liabilities are 450 million yuan, and serious insolvency, how much material can be left in this plate? Although the creditor's rights of
workers are in the first place, the premise of the first place is that there must be something on the plate to be divided. The Bankruptcy Law stipulates that if the bankruptcy property is insufficient to pay off the liquidation requirements in the same order, it shall be distributed in proportion. If the enterprise really procrastinates to this step, according to the proportion, the wages, medical treatment, disability allowance and pension expenses owed by the enterprise to the employees, the basic endowment insurance and basic medical insurance expenses owed to the employees'personal accounts should be discounted, and the compensation that should be paid to the employees according to the laws and administrative regulations is a drop in the bucket. The law is comprehensive, but the reality is very skeletal, and the gap between them is the most helpless and heart-piercing place for workers.
AI Sheng Tu, for reference
only, why do you always have to wait until you are at the end of your tether before you admit defeat?
Shansheng special cement is by no means an isolated case. In the first half of 2026, the demand for cement declined deeply, the contradiction between supply and demand continued to intensify, the market competition was extremely fierce, the price of cement went down all the way, and the price of coal fluctuated and rose, which raised the production cost of enterprises, and the whole industry fell into a loss predicament. Declining demand, overcapacity and intensified competition are the questions of the times that all cement enterprises have to face.
Faced with this question, some enterprises choose to carry it to death. If the market is not good, the kiln will be stopped first; if the kiln is stopped for a long time, the capital chain will be broken; then the employees will owe wages and social security; the employees will ask for wages, the suppliers will sue, and the cases involving litigation and execution will snowball; finally, they can only take the assets to mortgage financing to renew their lives.. From having illusions to being at the end of one's tether, from being able to exit with dignity to being forced to go bankrupt and liquidate, what separates them is precisely the four words of "fluke mentality". It is undeniable that many owners of cement enterprises still hold the simple desire of "holding on one more time, the market will always come back", and are reluctant to shut down their factories that have worked hard for half a lifetime-but the market will not turn back because of their feelings. Procrastination is never a stop-loss, but a layer-by-layer transfer of the exit costs that should be borne by themselves to the workers who have the least bargaining power. In the end, the enterprise has not been saved, the wages of the workers have not been settled, and the compensation is impossible. Is this not another kind of drinking poison to quench thirst?
Decent exit, how to do it? The decline of
cement demand is inevitable, and the withdrawal of a number of enterprises from the historical stage is inevitable, but "how to withdraw" is always optional.
First, for business owners, it is necessary to settle the "exit cost account". When enterprises still have extra money and can pay salaries normally, the cost is the lowest if they take the initiative to shrink production capacity, negotiate the termination of labor contracts according to law, and pay economic compensation. When they are insolvent and their assets are mortgaged, they can't pay even if they want to. The four words "good reunion and good separation" sound decent, but they are actually the cheapest exit plan.
Second, for industries and localities, capacity clearance can not rely on "who falls first and who recognizes the fall". Industry associations and regulatory authorities should establish an early warning mechanism for the withdrawal of production capacity to intervene in advance and guide the orderly withdrawal of enterprises with continuous losses and signs of wage arrears; the wage arrears guarantee fund and wage guarantee system should really cover the bottom line, so that employees will not lose both people and money when enterprises collapse. The winter of the
cement industry is still very long, and the exit of enterprises is still continuing. We can't stop the trend, but we can decide the way to exit. Choosing a decent exit when there is still money left is not only an account to the workers who have lived together for many years, but also a decent full stop to their business for most of their lives.
Enterprises can fall, but please put the resettlement account of workers, when there is still the ability to calculate, do not let workers become the final "price".
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