To put it bluntly, it's true to give young people more holidays.
Of course, people are still more subtle in their expressions.
Huo Qigang said that the current "Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees" stipulates that if an employee has worked for one year but less than 10 years, he or she shall have five days per year for the first two years, and then add one day each year to increase to a maximum of 10 days.
This annual leave system has lagged far behind the progress of the times and needs to be changed, which can increase the happiness of the people and is also an important link in expanding domestic demand.
And the most direct result of such a small annual leave is the excessive concentration of domestic tourists, everyone travel is concentrated in the "May Day", "Eleventh", "Spring Festival", to civil aviation, railways, highways, urban construction, commerce, scenic spots, accommodation and other departments to bring huge supply pressure, resulting in a decline in service quality, poor tourist experience, seriously affecting the competitiveness of China's tourism industry.
Every year, the three festivals of the holiday, will inevitably be scolded three times, scolded every year, every year, so many years have never changed, on the one hand to concentrate on the release of consumption, on the other hand, the available vacation time is too little, the contradictions on both sides are gathered together, and the ultimate sacrifice is the right of the masses to rest.
Is it badly tuned? No, the key is that the annual leave is too little, and if there is more annual leave, it will not be necessary to travel on these three festivals.
Finally, the annual leave system greatly inhibits young consumer groups, because young people generally have less than 10 years of working experience, so they only have a maximum of 5 days of annual leave, which is completely compensated by the company's leave system.
The problem is that companies that can have more leave systems are often foreign-funded enterprises, such as the German company where Uncle Seven and I used to be, and it is 10 days of vacation when you go in, which does not conflict with national regulations, that is, you can have 15 days of vacation a year. For every more day of work, up to a maximum of 15 days, for a total of 20 days off.
But in real life, how many such companies can there be?
I am afraid that the proportion is pitifully small, not to mention the current situation of foreign capital in the country ......Everyone has also seen it, and it can only be said that there is one family that cherishes one.
As for most private enterprises, it is thankful that they can guarantee the national statutory holidays.
It can be said that Huo Qigang's proposal directly hits the pain point of contemporary migrant workers, with little annual leave, making every vacation like a war, and it is completely impossible to enjoy the pleasure brought by the holiday.
In the end, it led to young people lying down completely, not wanting to go anywhere during the holidays, and even resisting consumption.
Young people are no longer consuming, and relying on the spending power of those retired workers alone is obviously unable to support the domestic internal circulation.
Therefore, whether from the macro or micro aspects, giving migrant workers, not just young people, a little more vacation and consumption time, is a win-win situation.
In fact, this logic was put forward by Ford more than 100 years ago, giving workers more holidays and more wages, so that they can buy Ford cars, and Ford's sales are the icing on the cake.
Or it can be understood as a kind of macro side of small profits and quick turnover.
However, this logic seems to be a bit out of place in China today, and it seems that only by letting the workers work hard and squeeze their surplus value endlessly, can they make high-quality and low-cost products and be competitive for exports.
It's always been hard for me to understand this.
Because I have been in the manufacturing industry for more than 10 years, I know very well that the biggest cost of manufacturing is raw materials, machinery and plants, and definitely not labor costs.
Therefore, desperately squeezing on the manual surface does not actually have too much oil and water, but cutting corners or something (just for example) will bring greater benefits.
On the contrary, virtual industries such as the Internet, games, and finance have particularly high labor costs, but people's profits are also high, but they are given more benefits.
However, China's main export products are still manufacturing products, not the above-mentioned virtual products, and it is really puzzling why there are so few migrant holidays as now.
Although Huo Qigang's proposal has certain limitations - he only talks about young people, and I think all migrant workers should have more vacations - it is still a very feasible proposal.
However, I see that many netizens are not interested in this, not because they oppose Huo Qigang's opinion, but because they think that there is no way to fully implement the 8-hour work week now, let alone increase the holiday so bluntly.
One thing to say, although the implementation of the current labor law is not perfect, as long as everyone is willing to labor arbitration, basically the worker wins, and in the arbitration tribunal, as long as the worker has no obvious mistakes, the enterprise pays the majority.
Of course, the company only gives money to the part that it should have given, and there is no additional fine, which leads to the fact that the enterprise has no fear of illegal employment.
Therefore, I think what is most lacking in China now is not the legal provisions, but the official supervision mechanism, which cannot always passively let the victims report, but should take the initiative to crack down on illegal enterprises.
Or how many times a company has been reported consecutively, then it is necessary to take the initiative to initiate the investigation process, so as to regulate the current employment environment.
So, the most critical question is, is it really meaningful to regulate the employment environment?
Or is it really just a financial argument to keep people working and lack rest periods?
That's all for you to think for yourself.
So Huo Qigang's proposal is very good, but I don't think it will be approved.