Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client March 25 (Wu Xiaowei and Zhang Meng) Since March, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Longnan City, Gansu Province have successively implemented 2.5-day holiday system to stimulate consumption. When netizens from other provinces and cities shouted envy, they couldn't help wondering how to take the extra half-day vacation? Will it reduce legal working hours? Will other regions follow up?
These three places have half an extra holiday a week
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According to the estimates of the China Tourism Academy, affected by the epidemic, in the first quarter of 2020 and throughout the year, domestic tourist arrivals will decrease by 56% and 15.5%, and domestic tourism revenue will decrease by 69% and 20.6%, respectively; it is expected that the year-on-year reduction of tourism will be 932 million. The number of person-times decreased by 1.18 trillion yuan.
In order to promote the consumption of cultural tourism, recently many countries have introduced measures such as issuing consumer vouchers and half-price tickets to scenic spots. Three other places have proposed 2.5-day holiday systems, with slightly different requirements. For example, Jiangxi Province and Longnan City encouraged and guided employees to go on vacation and tourism, but Zhejiang Province did not mention it.
Specifically, Jiangxi Province took the lead in proposing a 2.5-day flexible weekend in the second quarter on a trial basis, requiring all units in all regions to optimize work arrangements in accordance with actual conditions, and actively guide cadres and employees to go out on weekends for leisure and vacation. The flexible working schedule reduces the working hours, which can be replenished by extending the length of other working days.
Longnan City, Gansu Province subsequently encouraged vacation spending, requiring that each administrative and public institution on Friday afternoons every week after completing work tasks and arranging on-duty personnel, encourage the remaining employees to take vacation trips. Strictly implement the paid vacation system. No department or unit may cancel or reduce vacations for cadres and employees for any reason. At the same time, it is necessary to make reasonable arrangements for on-duty leave during the epidemic prevention and control period to ensure the physical and mental health of cadres and staff and to drive consumption to continue to increase.
Just yesterday (24th), Zhejiang Province issued the "Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province on Enhancing Consumption to Promote Stable Economic Growth". It mentioned that encouraging the implementation of a flexible work system of 4.5 days a week, and supporting qualified institutions, social organizations, enterprises and institutions to implement the paid vacation system.
What are the benefits? How can I take a half-day off?
Huang Yu, a macroeconomic researcher at Huarong Securities, said in an interview with the client of Sino-Singapore Jingwei that the current epidemic is erupting globally and the global economy will inevitably be impacted. External demand will continue to be sluggish in the future. Expanding domestic demand is the main means to boost the economy . Therefore, stimulating consumption will be an important task for the government in the future. The introduction of the 4.5-day flexible working system is mainly to increase leisure time and encourage consumption.
Guo Xiaobei, a researcher at the China Minsheng Bank Research Institute, told the client of Sino-Singapore Jingwei that Lenin once said: "People who do not rest will not work." Optimizing vacation arrangements goes far beyond stimulating consumer demand. It is expected that this new policy will, to a large extent, release the residents' consumption potential and activate the economy to promote social development.
The relevant person in charge of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism further pointed out that because Jiangxi ’s trial of the 2.5-day holiday system was only within three months of the second quarter of this year, and it was not long, it is expected that the group that will benefit will take the lead. Institutions and other institutions are expected to benefit first.
So, how should a 2.5-day holiday be taken? Longnan City clearly stipulates that every Friday afternoon, employees can be encouraged to travel with reasonable arrangements. The relevant person in charge of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism said that flexible work and rest is actually a form of "adjusted rest". It is not to shorten the weekly legal working hours and directly provide vacation on Friday afternoons, but to continue to follow national laws. The total length of work weekly, Friday afternoon work hours should be arranged to other workdays, so that Friday afternoon free up and combine weekends to go out for leisure and vacation.
2.5 days of weekend exploration in more than 10 provinces in 5 years
Photograph by Xin Yanwei of Zhang Yanzheng
In fact, encouraging flexible holidays is nothing new.
In the "Several Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Further Promoting Tourism Investment and Consumption" issued in August 2015, it is mentioned that flexible work and rest are encouraged, and places and units with conditions can optimize and adjust summer work and rest arrangements according to the actual situation according to law, for the employee week Five afternoons and weekends combined with leisure vacations create favorable conditions.
In recent years, more than 10 provinces including Hebei, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Gansu, Liaoning, Anhui, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Jiangsu have issued opinions to encourage 2.5-day vacations.
At that time, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province proposed to implement a 2.5-day vacation from April 1, 2016, and implement a Friday afternoon flexible work schedule from April 1 to October 31 every year, in principle, one month for each staff member. Enjoy two Friday afternoon shifts. Shangrao City proposed that it be implemented from June 1st to August 31st each year.
However, whether it is the relevant opinions issued by the State Council or local practices, the so-called 2.5-day holiday system has many restrictive conditions in its implementation. For example, it is clearly implemented by "conditional" units rather than all units and enterprises. .
Will follow up elsewhere?
So, under the epidemic, will there be more places to follow up and implement the 2.5-day holiday system? Experts disagree.
Huang Yu pointed out that with the current downward pressure on the domestic and foreign economies, it is expected that more provinces may introduce similar consumer stimulus policies in the future. Su Jian, director of the National Economic Research Center of Peking University, believes that other places may follow up, but the results may not be good.
Yang Chang, a senior economist and head of the policy group at the China-Thailand Securities Research Institute, told the Sino-Singapore Jingwei client that the policy reflects a positive attitude of further stimulating consumption and is likely to serve consumption, especially leisure and vacation industries. Stimulating effect. Whether other provinces follow up depends on the specific situation of other provinces and grasps the equilibrium point between production and leisure. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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