Protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers with new forms of employment (new perspective)

　　Online car-hailing on the road, courier guys and takeaways shuttled through the streets and alleys...With the in-depth development of the mobile Internet, new employment forms of workers represented by online car-hailing drivers, courier guys, and takeaway delivery personnel The scale is getting bigger and bigger.

These new forms of employment not only enrich the forms of employment, but also better serve the daily lives of individuals.

　　It is hard for us to imagine what life would be like without the online ride-hailing and express delivery brother.

Today, online car-hailing covers more than 300 cities across the country, and the average daily order volume has reached 20 million. The express delivery industry is developing rapidly. As of now, the number of express items in 2021 has exceeded 100 billion.

From large pieces of furniture and electrical appliances to fresh fruits, poultry, etc., almost all can be delivered regardless of whether the destination is in the city or in the countryside... Behind the rapid development of these industries are the hard work of thousands of practitioners.

According to statistics, the number of flexible employees in my country has reached 200 million, the number of takeaway delivery personnel has exceeded 7 million, and the number of online ride-hailing driver certificates has exceeded 3.5 million.

　　But for some time, news that the legitimate rights and interests of workers in these new forms of employment have not been effectively protected has appeared on the Internet from time to time.

For example, takeaway delivery personnel will encounter tight delivery time limits and high labor intensity, as well as how to protect their rights after accidents such as traffic accidents; online car-hailing drivers encounter individual online car-hailing platforms and adjust prices at will , Causing drivers to work overtime and fatigue driving problems; how to better integrate all new employment forms into the overall social security system and other issues.

These are all issues that need to be resolved urgently, not only related to personal health and income distribution, but also related to the healthy and long-term development of related industries.

　　Now, relevant government departments have paid attention to these problems.

Since the beginning of this year, a number of documents have been issued, and full efforts have begun to protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers with new employment forms.

In July this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other eight departments issued the "Guiding Opinions on Safeguarding the Labor Security Rights and Interests of Workers in New Employment Forms", and formulated many measures for the labor security rights and interests of laborers in new employment forms.

"Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Protecting the Legal Rights and Interests of the Courier Group", "Guiding Opinions on Implementing the Responsibilities of Online Catering Platforms and Effectively Protecting the Rights and Interests of Food Deliverymen", and "Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Practitioners in New Transportation Modes", etc. , Put forward more specific measures from the sub-fields.

　　Protecting workers' reasonable labor remuneration, improving the social security system, and increasing professional identity... These measures are universal measures to protect the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment.

At the same time, for different fields, the policies in the document are also responding to social hotspots, such as the issue of unreasonable proportions of online car-hailing platforms that are of social concern.

The "Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Practitioners in New Transportation Forms" stipulates that the proportion of the quota must not only be set reasonably, open and transparent, but also displayed in a timely manner after each order is completed, so that drivers and passengers can know immediately.

　　One point for deployment, nine points for implementation.

Good policies require strong execution.

Government departments should step up implementation efforts, urge platform companies to implement various policies in the document, and consolidate the main responsibilities of companies.

At the same time, the government should also improve its law enforcement and relief mechanisms, and be able to assume the responsibility of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers in the first time.

Platform companies should shoulder the main responsibility, improve the system and mechanism, create a good working environment for workers, and provide a full range of rights and interests protection.

　　In the final analysis, economic development requires the participation of people to protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers, so that workers can work in a stable, orderly, and happy manner, and the economy can develop sustainably, healthily, and steadily.

In particular, as some new economic formats are gradually expanding, new problems will also arise in the protection of labor rights, which is also unavoidable.

This requires us to strengthen research and judgment, continue to explore, adhere to the people-centered development concept, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers in these new forms of employment.

　　Zhang Yiqi