The Real Challenge Of "Double Wages"

The increase of workers' income should be combined with the burden reduction of enterprises to ensure sustainable growth and enhance the people's sense of growth.

The minimum wage increases by more than 13% a year, the annual wages of employees increase by 15%, and the wages of employees doubled during the period of 12th Five-Year. The Ministry of human resources and social security has raised a series of "money bag" growth targets, which has aroused social concern.

Recently, a reporter from the news weekly found that these goals conformed to the expectation of "increasing income" and had positive significance. But the industry has suggested that the increase of workers' income should be combined with the burden reduction of enterprises to ensure sustainable growth. In addition, we should speed up the implementation of the relevant wage system and form a "resultant force" with a series of people's livelihood improvement mechanisms to enhance the people's sense of "growth".

　　 Sense of growth Can it be true?

A number of respondents thought that the relevant departments put forward the goal of "double wage" in the past five years, indicating that the government is paying more and more attention to the sharing of results and the inclusion of universal benefits in the process of rapid economic development. Zou Yu, a white-collar consultant of a foreign consulting firm in Shanghai, said that wages have increased by 5% to 10% in recent years, but the cost of living is increasing. "The annual average income of 15% and five years doubles" has raised everyone's "expectation".

However, whether "wage increase" can bring "a sense of growth" is a problem. In recent years, the minimum wage standards have been rising everywhere, but some people do not feel that they are experiencing income growth. The reason is not that wages are growing fast enough, but that prices are running faster than wages.

Ji Baoliang, who works in the eastern part of Pingliang, Gansu, said that last year's base salary was 1200 yuan per month, and this year it increased by 80 yuan to 1280 yuan, but wages rose no more than prices. "For example, Lanzhou noodle before 5 yuan a bowl, now it rises to 6 yuan." Ji Baoliang counted the bill: in the first half of 2010, the monthly salary was around 2300 yuan, leaving 1500~1600 yuan. Now the monthly salary is around 2700 yuan, but things do not buy much, but only 1300 yuan a month. "Rise or not" Wage increase is On the one hand, the key is whether purchasing power has been strengthened. He said.

Zhang Ru, a salesperson in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, said that her monthly income was about 2000 yuan, and there was an increase every year. But she used to go shopping, but now she can hardly move three hundred or four hundred yuan, so she can't afford to go shopping. She said some of her colleagues bought a house and raised interest rates with interest.

Some industry insiders also pointed out that the "raise" of wages should be combined with "high control" to prevent "double growth" from being "increased". Related experts pointed out that "raising the low" means that the minimum wage standard will increase by more than 13% annually according to the planning requirements, reaching 40% to 60% of the average income of urban employees by the end of 12th Five-Year. "Controlling the high" is to control the excessive salary of some state-owned enterprises executives and the excessive wage growth of some high income industries, and strive to narrow the income gap. To prevent some middle and low income groups from being "statistically". Be increased ".

Zhang Libin, director of the Labor Science Research Institute of the Ministry of human resources and social security, said that the increase of workers' income is part of the whole income structure adjustment. The government can control the income of the public sector such as civil servants and public institutions. The private sector is to adjust the minimum wage standard, and the wage guidance line is not mandatory. Therefore, we must prevent the phenomenon that the government can master part of the private sector but not the private sector, so as to avoid further widening the income gap.

The combination of "employee income increase" and "enterprise burden reduction"

Correspondents interviewed in the eastern region found that some enterprises are facing a dilemma in the "wage growth of workers": on the one hand, with the rising price level and the emergence of "labor shortage" in some industries, it is imperative for enterprises to attract employees by means of salary increase; on the other hand, because of the increase of raw material costs, exchange rate changes and high tax burden, enterprises are unable to increase their employees' income.

Zhou Jiaquan, chairman of Zhejiang Shaoxing home and Yali Textile Co., Ltd. introduced that every year before the Spring Festival, he would tell his employees the wage increase next year and give them a "reassurance". After the festival, they would have a strong desire to return to work. At the beginning of this year, the wages of Jia Ya Li employees increased by 15% to 20%, and the monthly salary is now at 2000 yuan. However, the cost of raw materials has risen rapidly and continues to operate at a high level. "Pressure is still great for enterprises". It is understood that the "329" standard cotton per ton price was 13 thousand yuan at the beginning of last year, and it rose to a high level of 30 thousand yuan after the Spring Festival this year. Although it fell back later, it still maintained at a high level, and many enterprises had a lot of pressure to complete the order at the high level of cotton prices. In addition, the "hard cost" of expressway fees and port clearance fees in the port area has remained high for a long time.

Shao Gongchun, deputy general manager of Shanghai green fast food limited, said that the cost of raw materials has increased rapidly, which has increased by more than 20% over the same period last year. The company also provides accommodation for employees, which has increased by 30% over the same period last year. The company's profit margins are getting smaller and smaller.

Mao Lili, general manager of Shanghai Yijun dress and adornment Co., told reporters: last year, the cost of raw materials increased by 9%, and the cost of manpower increased by 15%. Last year, the turnover was 65 million yuan, but the profit was almost exhausted by the rise of various costs, with a net profit margin of only about 0.5%. The tax burden of enterprises is still very high. Last year, enterprises paid taxes, such as value added tax, income tax, turnover tax and so on, in millions of yuan or so.

Tang Jun, Secretary General of the center for Social Policy Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the key to "double wages" lies in raising the income level of "extra institutional" personnel. There are three ways: first, the government grants subsidies or tax rebates to low-income people; the two is to reduce taxes for small and medium-sized enterprises; the three is to strengthen trade union strength and improve collective wage consultation mechanism, so that owners and employees can negotiate the agreed salary increase.

Make "raise salary" become "increase income".

According to the insiders in the interview, increasing the sense of growth of employees is to turn "raise wages" into "increase income". After the goal is put forward, a series of more practical and complete implementation measures and system designs are needed.

First of all, we should strengthen the improvement and implementation of the wage system itself. For example, we should carry out the collective wage consultation system between employers and employees, establish and improve the normal wage growth mechanism and payment guarantee mechanism, state-owned enterprise executive pay management system, high income industry income regulation system, as well as a set of system systems such as minimum wage guarantee, wage guidance line, labor market wage price, labor cost salary, and enterprise salary information investigation and release. The establishment and implementation of these systems should be inspectors regularly and publicized so that workers can see a "perfect mechanism" and "raise revenue".

Secondly, we should strengthen the supervision of the labour market and avoid "having policies and countermeasures." Take the "minimum wage guarantee system" as an example, the government departments have repeatedly raised the minimum wage standard, but in the operation, many enterprises have made low "basic wages" and increased the proportion of merit pay, thus reducing the amount of paid vacation and overtime pay based on the basic wage basis, and finally turned the "minimum wage" into "standard wage", and the income of workers has not really improved with the implementation of the policy.

Wang Da, an associate professor of population research at East China Normal University, said that in general, the fixed part of the wage component should be 60% to 70%, and the floating rate is 30% to 40%. It is hard to predict whether the goal of "annual wage increase of 15%" will encounter such embarrassment. "Experts suggest that policies must be perfected from reality so as to prevent them from being" suspended "during implementation.

Moreover, the "wage increase" system should be combined with more people's livelihood improvement mechanism. Japan's "national income doubling plan" implemented in the 60s of last century is worth learning from.

Wang Yanzhong, director of the Research Center for labor and social security of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and other experts believe that the success of Japan's plan is not only a rise in wages, but also a follow up of related livelihood systems such as matching employment system, income distribution and social security system. After all, wage growth is only part of the reform of income distribution, only for the first time. Income redistribution includes social security, equalization of public services, social welfare and tax adjustment. The reform of income distribution should not be limited to wage growth. There must be other mechanisms to protect it.