It is legally binding for the contractor to owe money, write IOUs and press his fingerprints. If the contents of the IOUs issued by the undertaker comply with the law and the parties have the civil capacity to issue IOUs, the IOUs issued by the parties under the premise of voluntariness and legality have legal effect.

Legal analysis

As long as the debt bill clearly shows the creditor-debtor relationship between the two parties, and the undertaker is the debtor's autograph or handprint, and the signature is true, there is no fraud, coercion or other invalid or revocable circumstances that can change the civil legal act. The IOU shall come into effect upon the debtor's signature and shall be protected by law. The legal loan relationship is protected by law, and migrant workers can apply to the local labor inspection department with proof materials such as IOUs, requiring them to perform their duties according to law and help migrant workers beg for wages. Or directly apply to the people's court for issuing a payment order, and after obtaining the payment order, apply for compulsory execution according to law. There are several ways to ask for salary: 1. Workers can go to the local human resources and social security bureau to complain about labor supervision. 2. You can apply to the Labor Dispute Arbitration Committee of the local Human Resources and Social Security Bureau for arbitration and demand payment of wages. 3. If there is an iou, you can directly sue to the court and demand payment of the wages in the iou. IOUs can be used as the basis for recovering creditor's rights, but we should pay attention to the statute of limitations of IOUs. If the statute of limitations of IOUs can be determined, the creditor's rights can be claimed according to law. According to the law, if you want to confirm the fact that the debt relationship exists, you usually need to provide more evidence to prove it. Therefore, if there is only an IOU, we can also let the debtor admit the existence of the debt in other ways, so that the relationship between the creditor's rights and debts of both parties can be clear, which is conducive to creditors to recover the debt.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code

Article 143 A civil juristic act that meets the following conditions is valid: (1) The actor has corresponding capacity for civil conduct; (2) the meaning is true; (three) does not violate the mandatory provisions of laws and administrative regulations, and does not violate public order and good customs.

Article 490 Where the parties conclude a contract in the form of a contract, the contract is formed when the parties sign, seal or fingerprint it. Before signing, sealing or fingerprinting, one party has fulfilled its main obligations, and the contract is established when the other party accepts it. A contract shall be concluded in written form as stipulated by laws, administrative regulations or agreed by the parties. If the parties do not do this in writing, but one party has fulfilled its main obligations and the other party accepts it, the contract is established.