Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, April 16 - Title: Trial "Weekend 2.5 days' rest elasticity, will only" look beautiful "?
Xinhua News Agency "Xinhua Perspective" reporter
On April 11, Nanjing announced the trial implementation of a policy of 2.5 days off per week. Earlier, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Longnan City, Gansu Province and other places also issued a document encouraging the implementation of a "2.5-day weekend" flexible work and rest policy.
The "2.5-day weekend" flexible work and rest policy is to increase the half-day rest time on Friday afternoon on Saturdays and Sundays. What do the parties in this policy think? How is it landing?
Encourage more flexible "rest on the weekend of 2.5 days" to promote holiday consumption
"After the policy trial, my family and I went to the suburbs to play on the weekend and spent about 2,000 yuan." Wang Haiyan, a staff member of the Wudu District Business Bureau in Longnan City, said that during the epidemic, he worked intensively for more than a month and could rest for two and a half days At the same time, it also stimulates consumption, which is quite good.
In Jiangxi, the Yichun City Federation of Trade Unions and the Yichun City, Guangzhou, Guangxi and New Travel Bureau specially organized cadres and employees to take the lead in the trial of the "2.5-day weekend" flexible work and rest. "In order to promote the resumption of production and production of cultural tourism enterprises, the two units organized a tour to Mingyue Mountain, a national 5A tourist scenic spot in Yichun City, and employees actively signed up to participate, with a total of about 100 people." Fu Yugui, Deputy Director of Wenguang New Tourism Bureau of Yichun City He said that he hopes to take the lead in the implementation of the two units and let this practice be promoted throughout the city.
In fact, as early as August 2015, the General Office of the State Council issued “Several Opinions on Further Promoting Tourism Investment and Consumption” to encourage flexible work and rest; qualified localities and units can optimize and adjust the summer work and rest arrangements according to law according to actual conditions To create favorable conditions for employees to go out for leisure vacations on Friday afternoon and weekends.
Compared with the past, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Longnan, Gansu, Nanjing, Jiangsu and other places encouraged the trial of a “2.5-day weekend” flexible work and rest, the main purpose is to reduce the impact of the epidemic on the economy, boost the confidence of the tourism market, and boost holiday consumption. At the same time, many places have also launched activities such as the issuance of consumer vouchers and discounts on scenic spot tickets to further stimulate offline and cultural tourism consumption.
Bao Hongnv, deputy chairman of Moganshan B & B Association in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province, said that safety, environment and comfort are now the most concerns of tourists. If the “2.5-day weekend” flexible work schedule is tested, people ’s weekend travel radius will increase accordingly. Many people will choose the “3 days and 2 nights” travel mode, and the demand for accommodation and meals will also increase. "Farmhouse" etc. are all great benefits.
Can the "2.5 days of weekend" flexible schedule be implemented?
The reporter found in the interview that currently, the units that can implement the "2.5-day weekend" flexible work and rest are mostly government agencies, institutions and certain state-owned enterprises with relatively stable work and fixed time. However, the window service units, grassroots units and private enterprises of government departments are more difficult to implement this policy.
Some grass-roots cadres said that the daily overtime work of grass-roots civil servants is very common, and even double days off and paid annual leave are difficult to implement in place. The "2.5 days of weekend" flexible work and rest can only be expected.
Qi Tonggang, a person in charge of a small and medium-sized enterprise in Zhejiang, said that due to the epidemic, many enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, are facing difficulties in operating and reducing profits. At this time, allowing employees to implement a "2.5-day weekend" flexible work schedule will undoubtedly increase the burden on enterprises.
"Don't look at sales work, it seems flexible, but in the final analysis, salary is a performance system, and sometimes you have to accompany your clients on weekends. Taking vacations for yourself is equivalent to a reduction in income." Luo Xiao, a purchaser of a private enterprise in Zhejiang, said.
Industry insiders believe that the "2.5-day weekend" flexible work and rest policy can indeed promote the development of tourism and upstream and downstream industries to a certain extent, but because this is only a local policy, not a national legal system, there is no rigid requirement. It is difficult for all units to arrange for themselves under the current circumstances.
Xu Guangjian, a professor at Renmin University of China, said that in some areas, encouraging "2.5 days of weekends" flexible work and rest has a certain positive significance in the current special background; but such flexible work and rest must be implemented under the premise of observing the law and working 40 hours a week. Ensure that normal work and production activities are not affected.
How to let more people enjoy the policy dividend?
Many netizens worry that the "2.5-day weekend" flexible work schedule will become a disguised welfare for a few departments and a few people. Many experts believe that the "2.5-day" rest mode can neither be a welfare for a few people, let most people be "fake", nor can it make government services "shrink", which brings inconvenience to the public and at the same time Enterprises increase the burden.
"Is a two-and-a-half-day break every week a fake holiday? Will it affect normal income? If there are more specific guidance programs and supporting incentive policies, companies will be more active and employees will be more looking forward to." Luo Xiao and others said.
Cao Guoxin, deputy secretary-general of the Jiangxi Provincial Tourism Culture Research Association, said that the experience of various regions can be summarized and the implementation measures can be improved; for some window departments, hospitals and other units that guarantee public services, the issue of fairness can be resolved by providing rotation and replacement.
Yang Jianhua, president of the Zhejiang Provincial Social Society, believes that to encourage companies to implement this policy, the government needs to come up with real benefits. For example, for enterprises implementing this policy, certain tax incentives should be given, or the cost of social security for enterprises and individuals should be reduced to alleviate the pressure on enterprises and increase the enthusiasm of enterprises and employees.
Gao Yafang, secretary-general of the Gansu Tourism Think Tank Secretariat, said that tourism is a high-quality consumption in which people have the money and leisure to seek spiritual pleasure. The policy design of a "2.5-day weekend" flexible schedule may not necessarily stimulate consumption on a large scale. Where conditions permit, some Huimin consumption vouchers can be properly issued, combined with supporting measures such as ticket exemption in tourist attractions, so that people can have fun and have peace of mind.
Cao Guoxin believes that more provinces may introduce similar consumption stimulus policies. Relevant departments and local governments should further optimize vacation arrangements, implement a paid vacation system for employees, encourage off-peak vacations and flexible work and rest; at the same time, vigorously develop more and better quality leisure vacation tourism products, further improve tourism infrastructure, and let more people Being able to take vacations, love vacations and take good vacations makes holiday consumption a new bright spot in China's economic growth. (Reporters Zhang Xuan, Wei Donghua, Cheng Di, Lang Bingbing)