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Who "invented" the compensatory leave, and what exactly is the compensatory leave?
The mainland compensatory leave system first appeared in 1999. In that year, the State Council revised the "Holiday Measures", raising the public holiday from 7 days to 10 days, and for the first time proposed to adjust the adjacent weekends of the Spring Festival, Labor Day and National Day to form three consecutive 7-day long holidays.
Take the first "National Day Golden Week" as an example: the number of people traveling across the country reached 28 million in 7 days, and the comprehensive tourism income was 14.1 billion yuan. According to media disclosures, the seven-day expenditure is equivalent to 5.9% of the country's domestic tourism revenue and 0.18% of the country's GDP of 7,955.3 billion yuan in the previous year.
The long holiday has stimulated the enthusiasm of the masses for travel, effectively stimulated domestic demand, and increased fiscal revenue, but due to insufficient supply, insufficient estimation of the new situation and other reasons, problems such as insufficient transportation capacity, full scenic spots, and bullying and stealing customers have also been exposed.
In response to this situation, in 2000, the State Council issued the "Notice on Several Opinions on Further Developing Holiday Tourism", proposing the establishment of a national holiday tourism inter-ministerial coordination conference system, led by the former National Tourism Administration, together with the former State Development Planning Commission, the former State Economic and Trade Commission and other 11 departments. Its office is known to the public as the "National Holiday Office".
At the end of each year, the National Holiday Office will study and put forward opinions on the holiday dates of the "Golden Week" of the following year, and after submitting them to the State Council for approval, the General Office of the State Council will announce them to the whole country.
In September 2014, the National Holiday Office, which had been in operation for 14 years, was officially abolished, and all functions were merged into the inter-ministerial joint conference system of the State Council's tourism work, with 28 departments of the State Council as members. The office of the joint conference is located in the former China National Tourism Administration.
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What is the level of mainland holiday days in the world?
In October 2023, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a document to interpret the five highlights of the holiday arrangements in 2024, which mentioned that the total number of statutory holidays in mainland China is 11 days, 104 days off on weekends, 5-15 days of paid leave, and the total number of vacation days (120 to 130 days) is at the upper middle level in the world.
However, the number of days of paid leave on the mainland is far behind that of some developed countries. According to the statistics of the former National Holiday Office in 2013, based on 10 years of work, the average paid annual leave for employees in 62 countries and regions is 19 working days, and the mainland is 10 working days, ranking 59th in a tie, only higher than Thailand (6 working days) and the Philippines (5 working days).
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Do you have to take a day off?
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) publicly responded in October last year, "In general, it is better to take a holiday than not to take a holiday, and it has to be adjusted." ”
The reason given by the National Development and Reform Commission is that among the seven statutory holidays in the mainland, the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are determined according to the lunar calendar, New Year's Day, Labor Day and National Day are determined according to the Gregorian calendar, and the Qingming Festival is based on the solar terms, which leads to the lack of connection between holidays and weekends in the Gregorian calendar.
If you don't take a holiday, there will be a gap of 1 working day between some holidays and weekends every year, resulting in "fragmentation" of holidays, etc., forming a lot of "single jumps". Compensatory leave is an effective policy arrangement made to avoid the "fragmentation" of holidays under the premise that the total number of holidays is fixed.
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Why do people complain about compensatory time off?
On the one hand, some office workers will choose to travel during the holidays, and they will have to work for 6 days in a row when they return to work after a tiring journey. At the same time, centralized travel during the same time period has also led to the failure to grab high-speed rail tickets, highway traffic jams, rising air tickets and hotels, and full scenic spots...... People's travel experiences are not good.
On the other hand, for many employees of units who take a single holiday, take a turn of leave, or need to be on duty on vacation, the compensatory leave may "withdraw" the original only one day's rest, and finally lead to no vacation and no rest.
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Is there a play in changing the compensatory leave?
In this round of controversy, in addition to calling for the implementation of weekends and paid annual leave, increasing holidays is also a mainstream voice. Specific suggestions include: resuming the "May Day" three-day holiday, only adjusting the leave and not adjusting the shift, and not making up the shift after the small long holiday.
Wu Bihu, director of the Tourism Research and Planning Center of Peking University and academician of the International Tourism Research Institute, revealed that he has attended some meetings, and the adjustment of the leave system has entered the discussion at the government level, but the plan has not yet come out.
The difficulty lies in the fact that, on the one hand, "it is difficult to reconcile the voices of all sides" and that the voices of all quarters must be fully heard; on the other hand, when formulating policies, each department must first think of the things that the department is in charge of, so as not to have problems, which is also a deep reason why the reform of the holiday system has not been promoted for a long time.
For example, the cultural tourism and industrial and commercial departments are very welcome to take an extra day off, because it will drive the cultural tourism and retail industries, but the industry and information technology departments may wonder whether the holiday will have an impact on the manufacturing industry, and the personnel and labor departments may be worried about whether there will be labor disputes.
I look forward to more people in the future being able to enjoy more of the tranquility and beauty of "poetry and distance" in addition to busy work, so that vacation can become a happy label of life
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▌Source of this article | CCTV, Beijing News, 21st Century Business Herald, Zhejiang Propaganda.
▌Edit | To the truth
▌Audit| Qin Li, Chen Xiaoyun, Yang Jun