Wage Growth Is Hard To Bother The Shoe Industry (2)

Keep up with the wind and raise salaries, making enterprises unprepared.

Since the beginning of this year, 27 provinces and municipalities across the country have planned to raise the minimum wage standard.

All over the place, the "pay surge" has also attracted applause.

There is a view that a wide range of wage increases for the reform of income distribution is of great significance, which means that the reform fired the first shot.

This news has excited many people, but if it is equated with income distribution reform, it may be too simplistic understanding.

In fact, the reform of income distribution is far more complicated than raising the minimum wage, and the wages of employees who are determined by market competition and supply and demand are far from the government's "visible hand".

Reporters in the Pearl River Delta research found that some business executives believe that this round of "wage surge", in fact, there are factors that follow the trend of comparison, not to take the initiative to proceed with the reform of income distribution.

Reporters also learned from relevant researchers that during the process of raising the minimum wage standard, some cities in the Pearl River Delta region did not investigate, but directly compared with other coastal cities.

"Some cities simply do not know why the minimum wage standards should be raised, but only when other cities are raised, will they be followed up."

These people pointed out that such a blind increase in standards did not take into account the actual situation of local enterprises, nor did they know how high the enterprises were, which would easily lead to inconsistency in labor relations.

In fact, not only do some cities increase their standards to follow suit, but many workers continue to improve their expectations.

When Lin Xiaoning talked about some workers' reasons for asking for a raise, he cried and laughed. "Our factory has a general worker. Last year's salary was 1300 yuan. This year, when the workload has not increased, it has increased to 1450 yuan. In fact, it has risen by more than 10%, but he is very unhappy.

He came to me and said, "why did the other people add 300 yuan? I only added 150 yuan."

Faced with this large scale of "wage surge", many enterprises in the Pearl River Delta have been overwhelmed.

Reporters found that many enterprises in Dongguan, Shenzhen and other places were very puzzled and helpless when talking about "raise salary", because before the "raise salary", enterprises not only did not expect the local government to raise the minimum wage standard substantially, but also did not expect workers to substantially raise their salary expectations.

"In recent 3 years, the wages of our factory have been increased by more than two times, especially since this year, wages have increased by more than 30%.

But in the past 7 years, the cumulative salary increase was only around 15%.

Chen Ming, director of operation of Jiasun knitting factory in Dongguan, sighed with reporters. The wage cost suddenly rose sharply, and the enterprise was caught unprepared.

Chen Ming felt the same way, and Lu De Xin.

According to him, this year, the company still used last year's raw material prices and workers' wages as the basis for calculating the cost to quote the customers, but in fact, when there was a real order, they were afraid to answer it because

Take Dongguan as an example, the city raised its minimum wage from 770 yuan to 920 yuan in May this year.

The reporter investigated the wages of employees in Dongguan electronics, home textiles, light industry crafts and other industries, and found that the average salary was 1800-2000 yuan, which was double the minimum wage.

Ceng Xiaoqing introduced that the average monthly wage of the general worker's technology has reached 2000 yuan or so; the chairman of Pioneer Electronics Dongguan Co., Ltd., Li Shaoxi, said that the average worker's bag was wrapped up and the monthly salary was about 1800-2000 yuan; the manager of Ye Fung Metal Plastic Co., Ltd., Huang Zhen Bo told reporters that the average salary of the enterprise in May this year was about 2350 yuan, and that the average wage of the workers in the ordinary line was about 1800-1900 yuan, and that the workers with technical content were over 2500 yuan.

During a visit to the largest talent market in Dongguan, the reporter also found that in the recruitment market of the talent market, the words "the average wage increase in this city has risen 20% this year".

According to Chen Ming,

Located in Gongming town of Shenzhen City, Shenzhen Hongyu Electronics Co., Ltd. also felt the cost pressure caused by the huge salary increase.

According to the person in charge of the company, in order to recruit enough workers, the average wage of the company's workers has increased by 23% this year, and the profit margins have been squeezed.

Calling for normal wage growth mechanism

Zhang Yi, a researcher with the Institute of population and labor economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters that recruitment difficulties made many enterprises take the initiative to raise wages.

However, if we want to raise the minimum wage standard to help the optimization of the income distribution pattern, we must satisfy one condition, that is, the income growth of the low-income people is faster than that of the high income earners.

In addition, many

It is undeniable that for a long time, because the labor market has been in the buyer's market, the price of labor is rising very slowly. This round of the 27 provinces and cities, including the Pearl River Delta, has substantially raised the minimum wage standard.

However, such a long period of downturn and short term inflation are not healthy and are not conducive to optimizing the pattern of income distribution.

Ye Zhenbo said, "wage rise is a trend. We agree with it and will do it according to the relevant requirements of the state.

But the most important thing is to hope that the government can control the pace of the minimum wage increase and not raise the standard sharply. "

Besides the minimum wage standard should be steadily raised, the normal wage growth mechanism for workers and staff members also needs to be established.

In this round of income distribution reform, the departments concerned also clearly realized the importance of establishing a normal wage growth mechanism.

The Ministry of human resources and social security recently pointed out in a report that we should focus on promoting the collective wage consultation system, accelerate the establishment of a mechanism for workers' democratic participation in the decision-making of wage distribution in enterprises, and continue to strengthen the guidance of classification, so as to promote the establishment of a mechanism for increasing the wages of workers and staff members with economic benefits, and promoting the production of normal workers and workers in the battalion to share the fruits of development rationally.

Editor's comment: what is the normal growth mechanism of employee wages? Gu Yanceng, a researcher at the national development and Reform Commission's Institute of social development, pointed out that the so-called normal growth is to ensure that the rate of wage increase exceeds the inflation rate; two is to achieve continuous improvement in the living standard of workers; three, it will not cause a significant deterioration in employment situation; four, it can play a role in increasing the proportion of labor income. Indeed, if the shoemaking industry can introduce such a mechanism, so many labor disputes will be solved correspondingly. After all, soaring prices, appreciation of the renminbi, rising housing prices, and constant wages, how can a few people be allowed to do so?