(20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China·Observation) The report of the 20th National Congress injects "stable strength" into the "rice bowl" of workers
China News Service Beijing, October 20th Title: The report of the 20th National Congress injects "stable strength" into the "rice bowl" of workers
China News Service reporter Li Jinlei
Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood and the source of wealth. At present, the total employment pressure in China remains unabated, structural contradictions are prominent, and "more stable work" has become the hope of the people.
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China report targets the difficulties and focus of employment, deploys and implements the employment priority strategy, strengthens support, breaks discrimination, and strengthens guarantees, and injects stable strength into the worker's "rice bowl".
On October 16, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was grandly opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo by Mao Jianjun, China News Service reporter
Strengthening employment priority policy
0 In the past decade, the number of new urban jobs in China has exceeded 13 million per year. The national new urban employment target in 2022 is more than 11 million, but the number of uncertain and unstable factors is increasing, and employment work still faces considerable challenges.
Twenty reports propose to strengthen employment priority policies, improve employment promotion mechanisms, and promote high-quality and full employment.
Director of the Institute of Sharing and Development of Zhejiang University Li Shi told China News Agency reporters that in the past, it emphasized "adhering to" employment priority, and this report emphasized "strengthening" employment priority. The change in the word demonstrated the determination and efforts to stabilize employment have increased and unabated.
To achieve more full and higher quality employment, grasping key groups is the key. The Twenty National Congress of the Communist Party of China requires the improvement of the public employment service system, the improvement of the employment support system for key groups, and the strengthening of employment support for disadvantaged groups.
Feng Wenmeng, director of the Research Office of the Institute of Public Administration and Human Resources of the Development Research Center of the State Council, told China News Service reporters that stabilizing the work of key groups such as college graduates, migrant workers, and people with employment difficulties is crucial to stabilizing the overall employment situation. Especially in 2022, the number of college graduates exceeded 10 million for the first time, and solving their employment is the top priority. It is expected that employment support measures for these key groups will be more perfect and more effective.
Eliminate employment discrimination
Comparing the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that "break the institutional and mechanism drawbacks that hinder the social mobility of labor and talents, so that everyone has the opportunity to achieve their own development through hard work", the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China added the sentence "eliminate unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination that affect equal employment".
Eliminating employment discrimination has become an urgent expectation of workers. Under the pressure of total employment, various implicit or explicit employment discrimination continue to grow, age discrimination, education discrimination, gender discrimination...the variety of restrictions and thresholds have become "stumbling blocks" for many people on their employment.
Feng Wenmeng believes that the Twenty Top Reports emphasize promoting fair opportunities, and eliminating unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination that affect equal employment is the only way to promote fair opportunities. It is expected that policy rules to protect workers from discrimination will be further introduced to further create a fair competition environment. Only by eliminating unreasonable restrictions and employment discrimination can workers enter the workplace more smoothly and achieve their own development through hard work.
Data map: Taiyuan, Shanxi, college graduates are looking for jobs. Photo by Wu Junjie, China News Service reporter
Strengthen rights protection
With the development of the platform economy, new employment forms of are emerging one after another, and the number of workers such as online delivery personnel , online car-hailing drivers and other workers has increased significantly. Data shows that the number of flexible employment personnel in China exceeds 200 million.
But many flexible employers are "trapped in the system, tied to algorithms, tied in commissions, and wandered outside social security", and their legitimate rights and interests are easily infringed. Take takeaway delivery staff as an example. They encounter problems of lack of accident protection from accidents.
There are new problems, there are new ways. The Twenty National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposes to support and standardize the development of new employment forms. Improve labor laws and regulations, improve labor relations consultation and coordination mechanism, improve the system for protecting workers' rights and interests, and strengthen the protection of workers' rights and interests in flexible employment and new employment forms.
In Feng Wenmeng's view, with the further implementation of measures such as occupational injury protection, the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms will be better protected. This is a kind of bottom-up that will help solve their worries and allow them to find employment with peace of mind. (End)
