Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, January 8th (Xiong Jiali and Zhang Meng) The cold wave hit recently, and the Central Meteorological Observatory issued blue cold wave warnings in succession, reminding everyone to pay attention to preventing gale and cooling weather.
With the drastic cooling in various places, the low temperature allowance once again aroused public attention.
Many places across the country were "frozen and crying"
According to the Central Meteorological Observatory, on the morning of January 7, the minimum temperature of 51 meteorological observation stations in Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and other provinces and cities broke through or reached the historical extreme since the station was established.
At 7 o'clock, Beijing -19.1℃, Tianjin -19.2℃, Hohhot -29.7℃, Jinan -18.3℃, Shijiazhuang -12.3℃, Shenyang -21.6℃.
The lowest temperature in Beijing is -19.6℃, reaching the lowest temperature in January after 1952 and the lowest temperature after 1966.
At 10 o'clock on the 7th, the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue blue cold wave warnings, and many places will continue to cool down in the future.
Screenshot of "Cold Wave Warning" from the Central Meteorological Observatory
According to the China Weather Network, from January 7 to 8, the temperature in the southeast of Northwest China, southern and western Huanghuai, Jianghan and most of its south will drop by 6 to 8℃, and the local temperature will drop by more than 10℃. In the north, there will be northerly winds of magnitude 4-6 and gusts of magnitude 7-8; on the 7-9th, there will be light snow or sleet in the eastern part of the northeast, the southeastern part of the northwest, the eastern part of the southwest, and most of the south of the Yangtze River. , Shandong Peninsula, Sichuan Basin and other places have moderate to heavy snow.
From the 13th to the 14th, affected by the cold air, the central and eastern regions will experience a cooling of 4-6℃ from north to south, and the local temperature may reach above 8℃. Some areas will be accompanied by 4-6 degree northerly winds, and some parts of the northeast will have Koyuki.
From 15-16, cold air will also affect most of the central and eastern regions, bringing strong winds to cool the weather.
It's cold, can I get low temperature allowance?
The low temperature allowance corresponds to the high temperature allowance, which is also an allowance in a special working environment.
However, compared with the gradual implementation of high temperature allowances, low temperature allowances have generally been shelved.
Last year, the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions conducted an online survey on the establishment of a low-temperature allowance system, involving more than 7,000 employees.
Data shows that 84% of the interviewed employees have never heard of low temperature allowance.
It is understood that the implementation policy of low temperature allowance is not perfect, and it was only mentioned incidentally in the "Minimum Wage Regulations" implemented in March 2004 at the national level.
It pointed out that in the case of workers providing normal labor, the wages that the employer should pay to the workers should not be lower after excluding allowances under special working environments and conditions such as mid-shift, night shift, high temperature, low temperature, underground, and poisonous and harmful conditions. Based on the local minimum wage standard.
Locally, according to incomplete statistics from the Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, Beijing, Ningxia, Hubei, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places also mentioned low temperature allowances incidentally when setting minimum wage standards.
The above-mentioned provinces all stated that the minimum wage standard does not include allowances under special working environments and conditions such as mid-shift, night shift, high temperature, low temperature, underground, poisonous and harmful conditions.
However, except for Inner Mongolia, none of the above-mentioned provinces has detailed regulations on the conditions and amount of low-temperature allowances.
In 2013, Inner Mongolia formulated the high-temperature and high-cold post allowance payment standard for outdoor operations in high-temperature and cold weather.
According to the standard, enterprises, institutions, individual economic organizations and other employers in the administrative area of the autonomous region arrange for workers to work outdoors for 4 hours (including 4 hours) continuously in the cold weather below -25℃ (including -25℃). Receive an allowance of 230 yuan/month for alpine post.
However, some media interviewed a sanitation worker in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, but the worker stated that he had not received a low temperature allowance.
RMB data map.
Photo by Xiong Jiali of Sino-Singapore Jingwei
Experts: Different standards can be formulated according to different types of work
Working in a low temperature environment for a long time may damage your health.
Why is the low temperature allowance not implemented?
Earlier, the Economic Daily and Xinhua News Agency commented on this.
The Economic Daily pointed out that on the one hand, due to the large temperature difference between the north and the south, the state has not formulated a unified subsidy standard. The low temperature allowance needs to be determined according to the actual conditions of each region; on the other hand, the relevant regulations issued by some places are encouraging policies and are being implemented In the process, there is no compulsory restraint, and the employers rely on the conscious payment.
Therefore, most of the time, the low-temperature allowance becomes a frozen flower on the window, which looks beautiful, but it is difficult to really land.
The Xinhua Times Review pointed out that based on the analysis of the situation in various industries in recent years, there are nothing more than the following situations: one is that the regulations are not detailed enough and the implementation has not been implemented; the second is that our country is vast and the situation is different in different places; the third is that the supervision is not in place and it depends on the enterprise conscious.
Associate Professor Zhang Zhixin of the Capital University of Economics and Business pointed out in an interview with the Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client that the low temperature allowance is, in nature, to give workers some extra protection, and it should be logically speaking.
So how should the low temperature allowance subsidy standard be formulated?
Ying Xiwen, head of the macro-regional research team of China Minbank Think Tank, told the Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client that different standards can be formulated according to different types of work, or different standards can be formulated according to the degree of hard work.
Zhang Zhixin does not recommend a unified national legislation.
He pointed out: First, it is inconsistent with the diversity or differences of local conditions; second, the financial resources of local governments are different, and if the comprehensive financial resources allow, they can provide subsidies to sanitation workers and other difficult and special jobs according to the local conditions; third, they can High and low temperatures are included in the emergency management of natural disasters, increasing emergency material reserves, and doing more precautions, sometimes it may be better or more necessary than granting subsidies.
(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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