According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, China's flexible employment population has reached about 200 million in 2021. Data from the National College Student Information Consultation and Employment Guidance Center show that the proportion of flexible employment f

National Bureau of Statistics data shows that China’s flexible employment population has reached about 200 million in 2021. Data from the National College Student Information Consultation and Employment Guidance Center show that the proportion of flexible employment for college graduates in the country in 2020 and 2021 reached 16.25% and 16.9% respectively. Flexible employment has become an important channel for young people such as college graduates to find employment. . The government work report of the National Two Sessions in 2022 proposed to improve flexible employment social security policies and launch a new employment form occupational injury protection pilot. This is undoubtedly good news for the 200 million people with flexible employment.

Flexible employment generally refers to employment in flexible forms such as self-employment, part-time, temporary and flexible work. Singers, models, anchors, delivery boys, takeaway riders, technical workers, hourly home workers, online ride-hailing drivers, freelance writers, etc. are all flexible employees.

For employed people, flexible employment allows them to choose their own working methods and decide their working hours, without being constrained by fixed labor relations, and can achieve work-life balance; they can create value by developing interests and hobbies, and maximize their own value. change. Especially for college graduates, choosing flexible employment is undoubtedly a rational assessment and understanding of the employment environment, competition level, personal abilities and job value. Their flexible employment adds more intellectual factors and factors to some industries. technological factors. For enterprises, it is more flexible who to use, how to use it and how long to use it. For the government and society, as the employment situation remains severe, flexible employment is an important way to effectively alleviate employment pressure.

At present, flexible employees are often engaged in new business formats. New business formats mean more new opportunities, but also mean greater challenges. For example, in order to avoid legal responsibilities and reduce costs, companies often do not sign written labor contracts with flexible employees, or replace them with other forms of contracts such as labor contracts and contract contracts . Some researchers use "three no's" and "three difficulties" to describe flexible employment: "three no's" means no labor contract, no social insurance, no social security; "three no's" means it is difficult to work with platform companies Or the employer can negotiate on an equal footing, and it is difficult to confront them on an equal footing and fight for legal rights. This kind of employment situation makes many flexible employees feel that "their ideals are full but the reality is skinny" and they have worries about their future. How does

provide protection for those with flexible employment?

First, we must standardize the management of flexible employment. Bring a large number of flexible employment personnel who are outside the current employment service management system into service management, so that they can equally enjoy the government public employment services . For example, a new business platform flexible employment personnel employment information collection system was established. When they were in the "three noes" and "three difficulties", faced with insufficient protection of labor rights and frequent labor disputes, the relevant departments actively intervened to safeguard their rights and Smooth channels for rights protection and dispute resolution for this group; include flexible employment personnel in the scope of employment and unemployment registration, provide employment assistance when necessary and conditional, and strengthen flexible employment position matching recommendations. In addition, they will be included in the scope of housing rental guarantees, compulsory education enrollment for migrant children, entrepreneurial guaranteed loans, one-time entrepreneurial subsidies, rent subsidies, etc., to support multiple channels of flexible employment and entrepreneurship.

Secondly, improve social security for flexible employment. Revise and improve the " Labor Law", etc., and include the protection of labor rights and interests of workers in new types of flexible employment as specific occupational types, into the scope of protection of laws and regulations, and give workers in new types of industries equal employment, minimum wages, and working hours. The same basic labor rights as traditional employees in terms of rest time, basic pension insurance and medical insurance.

Once again, improve the skills and technology of flexible employment personnel.Relevant departments can organize public welfare vocational skills training to enhance the employment and entrepreneurial capabilities of flexible employment groups in the jurisdiction; they can also encourage registered flexible employment personnel to actively participate in skills training and provide skills improvement subsidies; advocate and support the development of new business formats enterprises Vocational skills training in relevant industries and subsidies. In addition, the professional title review channel for flexible employment personnel should be fully unblocked. In the past year or two, many places across the country have successively carried out professional title evaluations for express delivery staff. The highest one can be rated as a full senior engineer. This is mainly the treatment of express delivery engineering and technical talents. If front-line couriers are interested in engaging in relevant professional research, the door to professional title review should also be open to them. Moreover, this “green channel” for professional title review should strive to include the widest range of new occupations.