The "valley rain" has passed, and the cicadas are gradually singing. Unconsciously, the "May Day" holiday is coming again.
Since the advent of the holiday, "May Day" will arouse heated discussions every year. Five days will take two weekends, and the holidays will be over, but the follow-up work will be more exhausting. Compensatory leave not only disrupts the normal work cycle, but also leads to a decrease in work efficiency, which can be described as a "lose-lose situation".
However, it is different from the "little long vacation" that is now being frantically complained about. The former "May Day" was a good memory for countless people.
Ten years ago, "May Day" was called China's two "Golden Weeks" along with the National Day holiday, which is a good memory in the minds of countless people. And the "culprit" who made the "Golden Week" disappear is Tsinghua professor Cai Jiming.
"Golden Week" becomes a "small long holiday"
In fact, the "May Day" Golden Week, which is missed by many people, is actually an out-and-out "post-90s" generation.
Previously, there were only seven public holidays in the mainland, namely three days for National Day, three days for Spring Festival, and one day for Labor Day. In 1997, the "financial turmoil" ravaged Asia, which had a major impact on China's economy.
In the face of this challenge, in 1999 the State Council adjusted the holiday system, the State Council revised the "Holiday Measures", increased the total number of public holidays from 7 to 10 days, and proposed for the first time to combine the Spring Festival, National Day and Labor Day with adjacent weekends, so as to create a continuous long holiday. This is known as the "7-Day Golden Week".
It can be seen that the creation of the "Seven-day Golden Week", in order to boost confidence and promote consumption, has the mission and task of promoting the development of the industry and increasing residents' consumption.
In that era, the emergence of the "Golden Week" undoubtedly injected a "booster" into tourism consumption and economic development. It gave people who were suffering from fewer holidays at that time a chance to take a concentrated rest, and boosted the development of domestic tourism affected by the "financial turmoil" at that time by artificially creating a "golden window period" for tourism.
However, with the continuous development of the economy, the "Golden Week" holiday system is also facing new challenges. Due to the concentration of holidays, many people choose to travel during this period, resulting in a peak flow of people in many tourist attractions in China, which is overcrowded, which brings great pressure to the service coordination of the tourism industry.
At that time, Cai Jiming was the head of the holiday reform research group at Tsinghua University. After analysis and investigation, Professor Cai keenly found that the contribution of the "Golden Week" to economic development was exaggerated.
The increasingly "bloated" "Golden Week" not only fails to stimulate consumption, but also disrupts the normal functioning of society. After the long holiday, the workers will also suffer from "holiday syndrome", which will further affect the work efficiency.
Therefore, Professor Cai strongly recommends cutting the "Golden Week" and adding holidays for other traditional festivals. Each holiday, one or two days off before and after, you can make up a small long vacation, so that people can rest separately.
I have to say that Professor Cai's suggestion is very good, and it is very good, to what extent? The proposal made in '06 was accepted and implemented by the State Council in '07, and the people of the whole country lived a "small long holiday" in '08.
The suggestion was quite good, so he was scolded quite badly. finally had a long vacation, but it was dismantled by Professor Cai's suggestion.
Spit and abuse flew like snowflakes, netizens also built a post bar to scold him, and after the ban, he turned to May 1st, 11th and then scolded, and in the end, he even searched for human flesh and called him to scold him. In the end, Professor Cai, who was helpless, had no choice but to sue Baidu to the court on the grounds of privacy violation.
Since then, Cai Jiming has become the mastermind behind the "compensatory leave" system in people's hearts, and every May Day holiday, someone will complain and wish him a traffic jam every day during the May Day holiday.
Incomplete "Recommendations"
Regarding the complaints of netizens, Professor Cai was both funny and helpless. The reason is simple – many people know him as the culprit for breaking up Golden Week, but what many don't know is that he is also a strong supporter of the paid leave system.
As early as 06 years when the "notorious" letter of compensatory leave was submitted, Professor Cai also expressed the hope that the country can further implement the paid leave system, and in 2014, Professor Cai published an article entitled "Suggestions on Further Adjusting and Improving the Mainland Holiday System" in the "Humanities Magazine", once again proposing to further implement and develop the paid leave system.
In the article, Professor Cai pointed out that from the perspective of safeguarding workers' right to rest, if the current method is to be improved, it is necessary to further develop the paid leave system.
The implementation of the paid leave system is conducive to people's free "mixing" of holidays according to their own needs, which not only solves a series of problems such as tight transportation capacity and uneven resource scheduling caused by holiday concentration, but also better meets the urgent needs of the people for "long vacations". It can be seen that the masses' desire for a long holiday, Professor Cai himself is well aware.
From this point of view, the starting point of Professor Cai's "small long vacation" plan is not to let everyone "spoil their fun", but to let everyone have more and more free vacation time.
Paid annual leave, on the other hand, can be connected to statutory holidays or weekends, staggered peak travel, reduce the carrying pressure of traffic and scenic spots, and better exert economic vitality.
In Professor Cai's view, an important premise for the implementation of the "small long holiday" is to fully implement and improve the paid leave system. There are more paid vacations, and it is not difficult to relax at home for a few days with paid leave and small long vacations. But what even Professor Cai himself didn't expect was that even after nearly 20 years, "paid holidays" are still a long-standing problem in China.
According to the provisions of the current relevant system, the total number of statutory holidays in mainland China is 11 days, and the paid leave is 5-15 days, which is at the upper middle level in the world.
However, although the level of 11 days of public holidays is not low, compared with other countries, especially Europe and the United States, we have a large gap in the level of paid leave.
Even in Japan and South Korea, which are also civilized with "rolls", their paid vacation time is generally only 30-50 days, which is far from being imagined by domestic workers.
In addition, in terms of the implementation of weekly holidays, foreign countries are also "far ahead", such as Japan, France, Italy, the United States and other developed countries, their weekly holidays have laws to implement the guarantee.
In China, "996" is a blessing, "big and small weeks" is the norm, and 007 is not impossible. And none of this will appear in the statistics.
At this point, it is not difficult for us to understand why people attach so much importance to the "Golden Week", and Professor Cai, who proposed a "small long vacation", will be complained about - because there are really not many statutory long holidays that cannot be deducted by domestic companies and enterprises: and Professor Cai's idea of "small long vacation", whether there is a reliable paid leave system guarantee, back and forth, migrant workers naturally have deep opinions on Professor Cai's proposal.
Taking a long vacation and taking a good vacation is the simple wish of countless workers, and it is an inevitable requirement to promote social development and enhance people's happiness. The paid leave can not only make up for the current incomplete "small long vacation", but also give full play to the positive role of the holiday in promoting consumption and promoting industrial development.
So, if there are many benefits of "paid leave", why has it not been implemented in China?
"Paid leave", up and down
In fact, as early as 2008, the mainland issued the "Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees" related to paid leave.
However, the Regulations do not make mandatory provisions on the implementation of paid leave, but only stipulate that enterprises may not arrange annual leave for employees with their consent. Employees shall be paid three times their wages for the number of days they should have not taken.
And this leaves room for "bargaining" for the implementation of paid leave. In the lower-end labor-intensive industries, "neither annual leave nor money" is commonplace.
In addition to the company's "refusal to take leave", many workers themselves "dare not take leave". With the intensification of social involution, the pressure of social competition is constantly increasing, so that workers do not dare to rest easily.
In the eyes of many young people, if everyone does the same work, they will not be able to stand out from the competition, and only by taking advantage of the rest time to do a little more can they gain an advantage in the competition.
The cold wind of "reducing costs and increasing efficiency" and "optimizing at the age of 35" made the workers tremble, for fear that they would be "optimized" by the company if they were not careful. ”
Enterprises are "reluctant to let go", employees "dare not let go", and the law is "difficult to act", all kinds of reasons have caused "paid leave"
An embarrassing situation that is difficult to implement. Without the support of "paid leave", Professor Cai's envisioned "small and long vacation" has become a lack of arms and legs. And this is also the fundamental reason why Professor Cai is frequently complained.
In essence, the emergence of the leave system is, to a certain extent, to meet the actual needs of different industries and different enterprises, better allocate resources and improve production efficiency.
At present, the "compensatory leave" lacks the support of supporting systems, and it is difficult to reflect the fundamental needs of social development.
In order to better solve the problems brought about by the compensatory leave, it is necessary to let the compensatory leave fall on the "rest" and further improve and improve it on the basis of the compensatory leave system, so as to make it more in line with the actual needs and lifestyles of the people.
Only in this way can the holiday truly become a relaxing time for the masses, and only then can the holiday really play a key role in promoting consumption and enhancing residents' "sense of happiness" and "sense of gain". And we still have a lot of work to do on this road.
Epilogue:
A report and a "holiday" made Tsinghua professor Cai Jiming climb to the "cusp" of May Day every year, and become the "black hand of the holiday" criticized by previous netizens.
However, behind the complaints, we should also see that the reason why Professor Cai can "scold" on the hot search every year. Behind it is the dissatisfaction of netizens with the lack of holidays, and the disdain and laziness of the corporate sector for "paid leave".
In the face of the controversial holiday system, what the relevant departments should do is not to make a decision behind closed doors and demonstrate the "bright spots" and "advantages" of the current system, but should grasp the development of social production, improve the relevant systems, and create a holiday model that the people really want and like to see.