The 2024 Spring Festival holiday arrangements have been announced, which has aroused widespread attention and heated discussions from all walks of life. One of the most striking is that next year's Chinese New Year's Eve (February 9) will not be a holiday, but will start from the first day of the first lunar month (February 10) and continue until the eighth day of the first lunar month (February 17), a total of 8 days. This arrangement is different from previous years, and it is also inconsistent with the traditional habits of most people, so it has raised a lot of questions and questions. Why is it arranged this way?What are the benefits of this arrangement?Will this arrangement affect people's reunion and celebration?Is this arrangement reasonable and legal?Will this arrangement continue?In response to these problems, you have made explanations and evaluations, expounding the background, significance, advantages and highlights of this arrangement from different angles and levels, hoping to make the public understand and support this policy arrangement.
First of all, this arrangement is an innovative and heart-warming move on the basis of regulations, which fully reflects the good intentions and careful design of policymakers. According to the method, there are 7 statutory holidays in China, namely New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, of which the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are determined in accordance with the lunar calendar, New Year's Day, Labor Day and National Day are determined in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, and the Qingming Festival is determined according to the solar terms, and the weekends in the Gregorian calendar are not connected enoughand so on, forming a lot of "single jumps", it is not "tired and not loved", but "tired and not loved". Therefore, the compensatory holiday is an effective policy arrangement made to avoid the "fragmentation" of holidays under the premise that the total number of holidays is fixed.
Secondly, this arrangement is the longest Spring Festival holiday in history, which can be called the first gift package of the new year, which can meet the wishes of the masses to have more time for family reunions, and can also achieve a small goal of reunion first and then tourism. Although there is no nominal holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve, units and institutions are encouraged to make flexible arrangements according to the actual situation. At the same time, the highway has been free, which is essentially to create conditions for the people to take an extra day off. In 2024, the Spring Festival will have at least 8 days off, from the first day of the new year to the eighth day of the new year, and if it is combined with paid leave, it can be 9 days off, which is an innovation and breakthrough achieved by adjusting the start and end time of the holiday while ensuring that the total number of statutory holidays remains unchanged. Such an arrangement not only avoids the situation of "isolated working days" and "one day off" between Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, but also naturally connects with the first weekend after the holiday, forming a continuous holiday, which facilitates people's travel and arrangement.
Thirdly, this arrangement is a holiday arrangement with minimal intervention, which tries not to disrupt people's normal life rhythm and better meet the actual needs of people's combination of work and rest. The annual holiday in 2024 is relatively balanced, with at least 8 days for the Spring Festival, 7 days for the National Day, 5 days for Labor Day, 3 days for New Year's Day, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, and only 6 days after the long holiday. Through the reasonable combination of long and short vacations, people can make travel plans and arrangements throughout the year in advance, and have more and better date choices in terms of family visits, leisure, tourism, etc., so as to avoid "swarming" travel and "crowding" tourism.
Finally, this arrangement is to encourage the implementation of paid annual leave arrangements to better protect the public's right to rest. At present, the total number of statutory holidays in China is 11 days, 104 days off on weekends, 5-15 days of paid leave, and the total number of vacation days is at the upper middle level in the world. The reason why everyone still feels that the vacation is not enough and the sense of gain is not strong, mainly because the paid annual leave system is not in place, and we can't blame the statutory holiday arrangements and holidays. This holiday arrangement, by encouraging employers to include the Chinese New Year's Eve holiday in the paid annual leave arrangement, is a very ingenious exploration. Comparatively speaking, the vacation time of paid annual leave is longer, the arrangement is more flexible, and it is more suitable for the objective needs of people's staggered travel and scattered arrangements. Only when paid annual leave and statutory holidays are coordinated and arranged will the right to rest be more guaranteed.
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