2021, "beating workers" very hard
In 2012, Zhou Liqi, a native of Guangxi, was arrested for theft for the second time. He was also caught with one hand on the railing of the police station when interviewed by the media.
With long curly hair and thick beard, he was ridiculed by netizens as "Stealing Guevara". He said in a strong Guangxi-style Mandarin, "It is impossible to work part-time, and it is impossible to work in this life" until today. Also widely circulated.
Nine years later, in 2021, Zhou Liqi was released from prison. He did not work or sign a contract to become an Internet celebrity, but opened a barbecue restaurant with his cousin.
The word "beating workers" in his mouth suddenly exploded last year, and it has become a self-deprecating young man in the face of the burden of life.
While they chanted "No difficult work, only brave workers", "Working as a worker, working as a soul, working as a worker", while calculating the amount of money to be paid for tax evasion and tax evasion with a cargo anchor, they are too young to earn it. .
The background color of "working as a worker" is struggle, just like what netizens describe: "Saying'going to work' feels like being forced by life, reluctantly, and saying'working' is like carrying a beautiful longing. Work hard and sweat to create the future." In the past year, we were as ordinary as usual, going out in the same morning peak, going home under the same moonlight, working hard for our personal future and family happiness, and some burned. Oneself, illuminates the company, and some have dreams in mind and accumulate strength.
In the past year, we have reported a lot of "hitting workers."
At a take-out station in Yanjiao Town, Sanhe City, Hebei Province, 47-year-old Li Chunhai was unable to catch up with the young people by climbing stairs. .
He has been stolen food, given bad reviews, and compensated customers for overtime, and was fined 500 yuan by the system for ordering to be delivered early.
But as the parent of a child with leukemia, he dared not stop.
Not only for the delivery fee of 4 yuan per order, but also for the serious illness rescue of 10,000 to 50,000 for the children of takeaway riders.
In Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, Hu Yongchao, a rural teacher, undertakes 7 main courses for 3 grades. He has 7 classes at the busiest time of the day. He also tutors students at noon and evening. He also serves as the school's hygienist and safety officer.
Half of the students are left-behind children. He believes that he "worked hard and meticulously in class", and worked hard to help students "see a bigger world."
In the summer vacation, Hu Yongchao will go to big cities and become a restaurant waiter, telephone salesperson, and online taxi driver... After three years of summer work, he earns nearly 20,000 yuan as a subsidy as a teacher's income.
"I am not ashamed of earning income from labor." His dream is to have a house of his own in Jingdezhen, a half-hour drive away, where the average price is about 10,000 yuan per square meter.
In Beijing, screenwriter Zhang Mu struggled with how to "sprinkle sugar".
After 6 years in the industry, she has no contacts and no resources. By constantly changing projects to save works, she has become a professional screenwriter for sweet pet dramas.
In her "sweet pet" drama series, the life of an ordinary girl can be "opened up". The truth is that she rents in the "old and broken little", hits the floor, and many "touch her head" and "wall dong" The plot came out after she pushed open the takeaway lunch box.
Li Di, who graduated from computer science last year, chose to report to a pig farm in Yingde, Qingyuan, Guangdong.
Compared with the monthly salary of less than 3,000 yuan offered by some small Internet companies, the work of raising pigs with a basic salary of 6,000 yuan and including board and lodging is more attractive.
Here, he has to do feeding, scraping, injections, and even postpartum care of sows.
When encountering the epidemic prevention and control virus, Li Di lived in the pig barn for more than two months, listening to the sounds of pigs and eating with the smell of pig shit every day.
There are also assembly line female workers with their children, Dachang interns who "rolled on the starting line", and "bounty runners" in trail running events... Behind these stories is the real picture of the life of the "workers". Their struggle is like red blood cells, helping the pulse of China's economy. They need an environment of fairness and the rule of law.
A prominent problem before was overtime.
On January 7, Wang Taixu, a front-end development employee of Pinduoduo, witnessed a male colleague being taken to an ambulance at the company's door. He took a picture and posted it anonymously in the workplace social software.
He captioned the picture: "The second Pinduoduo warrior has fallen."
This news quickly became a hot search.
The company immediately came forward to clarify that the colleague was in the ambulance because of intestinal cramps, and it was not a major problem.
The next day, Wang Taixu claimed that he had been fired from the company, which quickly triggered a wide range of discussions among young people. The QQ group he established to exchange knowledge about labor law swarmed nearly 2,000 people almost instantly.
This incident caused an uproar, because just three days ago, a 23-year-old female Pinduoduo employee died suddenly on her way off work at 1:30 in the evening, which was believed to be related to long overtime work.
An employee of Pinduoduo said in an interview with the media that the average monthly working hours exceeds 300 hours, and even 13 days of continuous work and 1 day off, deduction of holidays has also become a tacit practice.
However, under the knowledge of related issues, a certified Pinduoduo official account responded: "Look at the people at the bottom, which one is not a life-for-money exchange. I have never considered it to be a problem of capital, but a problem of this society." Later, Pinduoduo explained that this was the personal behavior of the employees of the outsourcing company before the New Year's Eve party. Pinduoduo firmly opposed this and apologized for the lax control of the account.
People regretted the "strike workers" who passed away.
Statistics from the National Cardiovascular Center in 2019 show that there are up to 550,000 sudden cardiac deaths in China each year. Among the population of sudden cardiac deaths, 43% are young and middle-aged people aged 18-39. Excessive stress and overwork are caused by A big incentive.
The malformed overtime culture such as "996" squeezes the rest time of "beating workers."
It was born in the mouths of some star entrepreneurs and appeared in Internet companies. The majority of young people have higher incomes. Workers can get good returns for working overtime. Moreover, the industry's "involution" is relatively serious, regardless of whether they go to work on weekends or not. The amount will not decrease, causing the regulatory authorities and the general public to be less sensitive to their violations and take it for granted that high expenditures and high incomes are obtained.
In order to legitimize and normalize "996", some companies have even formed ethical disciplines internally. The normal "Nine-to-Five" is portrayed as a synonym for laziness and laziness, and is the object of "optimization".
Simply prolonging working hours and ignoring the workers' right to rest is not the correct posture to encourage struggle, and it violates the provisions of the labor law.
In August of this year, the Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued 10 typical cases of overtime work, clarifying the legal application standards for disputes such as the working hour system, overtime costs, and workers’ rights to rest and vacation.
In one of the typical cases, the two departments made it clear that the “996” content of working hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., working 6 days a week, seriously violated the law on extending the upper limit of working hours and should be deemed invalid.
Kuaishou, ByteDance, and BOSS directly hired one after another to cancel the arrangement of work every other week and Sunday, which is commonly known as the "small and small week" work system. Some employees complained that "overtime pay is less" and "would rather come to work". Some employees said that before The efficiency of small and small weeks is too low, and overtime on weekends is more used to "fishing".
Last month, Gree Electric announced that it would adjust the single-off work system to the two-day work system, and it was on the hot search. You know, my country has implemented the two-day holiday system since 1995.
You can't always drag the "strike workers" to speed, even though they once laughed at the security check will be swept out of the "steel will", but they are not iron beat.
In the past year, the "flexible employment" takeaway riders may be the group that feels this most.
In addition to salary disputes, from the superficial legal relationship, many riders' salary payment, social security and personal tax payment are not directly related to the platform, but are realized through a series of outsourcing.
Beijing Zhicheng Legal Aid and Research Center for Migrant Workers analyzed all 1,907 judicial judgments related to the determination of labor relations by riders since the appearance of the food delivery platform.
According to the survey, only 0.32% of takeaway platforms are recognized as employers.
What's more amazing is that according to their statistics, millions of riders have been registered as individual industrial and commercial households and signed contract agreements with flexible labor platforms.
In this case, the rider and the takeaway platform or intermediate platform are no longer an employment relationship, but similar to a contracting relationship or a cooperative relationship. The court may no longer treat them as workers, but as partners of the platform.
In this way, once disputes such as wages, social security, and resignation occur, it is difficult for them to be protected by the labor law.
In the event of an accident at work, they cannot receive subsidies in accordance with the Work Injury Insurance Regulations, and cannot receive work-related injury medical treatment, lost work expenses, disability allowances, and other compensation.
In August of this year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other eight departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Maintaining the Labor Security Rights and Interests of Workers in New Employment Forms." Hit the workers" got an insurance.
The data shows that there are currently 200 million flexible employees in my country, and the number of new forms of employment such as online delivery personnel, online car-hailing drivers, truck drivers, and Internet marketers who rely on Internet platforms for employment has increased significantly.
In 2020, there will be 84 million service providers in the sharing economy, and a large number of them are workers in new forms of employment.
This has become a new option for "beating up workers" to settle down.
The 51-year-old Yao Zhigang chose to become a rider and start all over again.
Previously.
He is the head of a branch of a bank in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He deals with deposits, funds, and insurance every day in suits and shoes.
Four years ago, he chose to quit his job and start a business. Unexpectedly, his savings of 2 million yuan in investment were lost and he owed more than 300,000 yuan in foreign debt.
A uniform, a small motorcycle, and a meal delivery box. Last year, he started to deliver takeaways in Changsha.
"In my hometown, many people must know me. How did President Yao go to take out? How do you deal with that huge gap?" He who runs 10 kilometers in the morning on average gets started after getting familiar with the road, because his work is outstanding and there is With management experience, it took Yao Zhigang only 4 months from the rider to the team leader to the station leader.
Like Yao Zhigang in the “worker hitting” category, there are only a few people who put everything down and go for it, especially those who are middle-aged, carrying mortgages and car loans, and need to support their families, even in the face of PUA in the workplace.
In the job market, "there is human resources before the age of 35, and the cost of human resources after the age of 35", they cannot give up lightly in the workplace.
But the younger generation of "hitting workers" often doesn't want to get used to the boss, as long as it makes sense, they are just as embarrassed to go back.
In December, Changsha Internet celebrity drink tea Yanyue's employees broke the news of a "war of words" in the company's work group.
Employees complained that the average working hours per person per day was as high as 11 hours, and after the store closed at 12 o'clock in the evening, the meeting had to be held until 3 o'clock in the morning.
For such a high-intensity, super-saturated job, the monthly salary is only 2,000 yuan, and the hourly salary is only 6-9 yuan.
These employees also bluntly said in the work group that the company is inhumane, which greatly squeezed the interests of employees.
It can be seen from the chat records that the employee’s “hard bargaining” behavior drew a counterattack from the company’s top executives and also received praise from other employees.
Unexpectedly, he received a phone call from his boss that night, informing him to go through the resignation procedures as soon as possible. Employees who liked his speech were also called to "proactively" resign, and dozens of people withdrew from the group.
The chat records of this internal "curse war" were quickly spread on the Internet, and the empathy of "beating workers" was gained. The reading volume of related topics reached 1.13 billion.
Under pressure from public opinion, the founder of Chayanyuese quickly issued an internal letter of apology to employees.
"Fighting against workers" must have a future, of course, it depends on personal struggle, and it must also take into account the trend of the times.
When the unpredictable black swan arrives, every "worker hitting" is vulnerable.
Compared with the Hunan guy I interviewed this year, the experience of many people is hard to be called a "kaner".
This product manager named Cai Xi used to work in Shenzhen and was a standard "hiker".
At the beginning of this year, he returned to work in his hometown in Hunan at the request of his parents. Unexpectedly, in the interval of an interview, the bathroom exploded and 40% of his skin was burned.
In the ambulance, Cai Xi muttered to herself: "I have an interview later, and the mortgage in Dongguan has not been paid off..." Because of this sentence, he was on a hot search.
Before entering the rescue room, he entrusted his mobile phone to someone else and asked someone to help cancel the afternoon interview.
Cai Xi's life was saved, but the scar was severe and her fingers could not be tightly clenched.
The company involved only paid for the medical expenses for the initial rescue, and the follow-up treatment almost consumed all his savings.
Before he could recover, he started looking for a job, "I still have a mortgage, and I don't want to use his parents' money anymore."
Now he has returned to work for a month.
After the explosion, he never thought about "lying down", only wishing to "work and live more enthusiastically".
He said that he was lucky to survive.
Source of Liu Yan: China Youth Daily