The May Day holiday is here again, are you already gearing up to travel, visiting relatives and friends, and feasting? However, when you open your calendar with joy, you find that apart from weekends, there is only one extra holiday! Such a policy of "compensating for holidays" cannot help but make people sigh that "Mrs. is too pitiful"!
However, before you are indignant, let's take a look at the past and present life of the holiday, and see what changes it has undergone, and perhaps, you will have a new understanding of "compensatory holidays"!
What are the public holidays?
Statutory holidays, as the name suggests, are the rest time for commemoration and celebration activities uniformly stipulated by national laws and regulations. It is one of the basic rights and interests enjoyed by workers, and it is also an important embodiment of the state's protection of citizens' right to rest through legislation.
However, statutory holidays are not set in stone. With the development of the times and the progress of society, it is also constantly adjusting and changing to better meet the needs of the people. Next, let's walk into the evolution history of statutory holidays and see what wonderful "transformations" it has!
The history of the evolution of statutory holidays
1. 1949: Lay the basic pattern
December 23, 1949 is a memorable day for the Chinese. On this day, the Government Council issued the "Measures for Holidays on National Festivals and Memorial Days", which officially established the basic pattern of statutory holidays in the mainland.
According to the "Measures", there are 4 holidays every year, namely: 1 day on New Year's Day, 3 days for the Spring Festival, 1 day for "May Day", and 2 days for "11th", adding up to a total of 7 days. Although the holiday time is not long, it is already a very happy thing for the working people who have just established New China to be able to enjoy paid leave.
From 1949 to 1995, the mainland had always implemented a system of 8 hours a day and 48 hours a week, that is, there was only one Sunday off per week. Counting statutory holidays, the legal rest period in the country is 59 days per year.
2. 1994: Singles and doubles began to work, and the workers smiled
On February 3, 1994, the State Council promulgated the Regulations of the State Council on the Working Hours of Employees, and since then the system of single and double days off has been officially implemented. According to this "regulation", the first week is a double day off, and the second week is a single day off, with an average of 44 hours per week.
The arrival of single and double holidays has undoubtedly brought joy to the majority of workers. Many people jokingly refer to the weekend as a "big week" and the single day off as a "small week". Finally, migrant workers can also enjoy more rest time!
3. 1995: Single-double rest "transformed" into a year-round weekend
On March 25, 1995, the State Council promulgated the new Regulations on Working Hours of Employees, adjusting the single and double days off to two days off throughout the year, that is, Saturday and Sunday as rest days.
This adjustment can be said to be a major benefit! Together with rest days and statutory holidays, workers can take about 104 days off every year. As soon as there is a lot of time, many people like to travel and consume, and the tertiary industry has also developed rapidly.
4. In 1999, the "Spring Festival, May Day, and Eleventh Day" small holiday model was born
In 1999, affected by the Southeast Asian financial crisis, the domestic economic situation was not optimistic. In order to stimulate consumption and stimulate domestic demand, the State Council decided to adjust the statutory holidays, and "spelled" the holidays of the Spring Festival, "May Day" and "Eleventh" by means of make-up shifts and shifts, forming a seven-day small long holiday model.
During the 1999 National Day Golden Week, the number of tourists nationwide reached 28 million, and the tourism income reached 14.1 billion yuan. For the first time, famous scenic spots such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City ushered in the grand occasion of "crowds of people", and shopping malls were even more crowded and full of consumption power.
Since then, the three small long holiday patterns have been followed and have become the most anticipated holidays for the majority of workers every year.
5. 2007: "Big Change" on Statutory Holidays
2007 can be said to be a milestone year in the history of the development of statutory holidays. In December of that year, the State Council released two important documents one after another.
One is the "National Annual Festival and Memorial Day Holiday Measures", which shortens the "May Day" holiday, and at the same time sets the three traditional festivals of Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival as statutory holidays. The other is the "Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees", which for the first time put forward the paid annual leave system, stipulating that employees who have worked for one year can enjoy paid annual leave, and if the annual leave is not completed, they can also apply to the unit for the payment of unused annual leave wages and remuneration equivalent to 300% of the salary income, which is what we often call "triple wages".
The promulgation of these two documents marks that the mainland's statutory holiday system has entered a new stage of development. Since then, workers can not only enjoy more diversified holiday holidays, but also have the "magic weapon" of paid annual leave, and the rights and interests of leave have been further protected.
What do you think of "compensatory leave"?
After talking about the history of the changes of so many statutory holidays, I believe that everyone has a deeper understanding of the "compensatory holiday". In fact, the original intention of the "compensatory holiday" policy is good, and it ensures that the total number of statutory holidays remains unchanged on the premise that the scattered holidays are "pieced together" as much as possible into relatively concentrated long holidays, so as to facilitate people to arrange travel and leisure activities.
But the "compensatory leave" is not flawless. For example, working overtime before the holiday and "making up shifts" after the holiday will inevitably bring some workers a feeling of physical and mental exhaustion.
After reading the history of the evolution of holidays, are you still satisfied with the leave system for our workers? What do you think about this?