The New Policy Protects The "Casual Economy" And The Rights And Interests Of Takeout Workers Are More Protected

Both meituan and hungry Mo officials said that they would resolutely implement the guidance and strive to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the platform related subjects, including riders.

On the afternoon of July 26, the State Administration of market supervision, the state cyber information office, and the national development and Reform Commission jointly issued the guiding opinions on implementing the responsibilities of online catering platforms and earnestly safeguarding the rights and interests of takeaway delivery attendants (hereinafter referred to as the opinions). It was proposed that the platform and third-party units should be urged to purchase social insurance for takeout workers in the future and should not be assessed by the most stringent algorithm, Appropriately relax the delivery time limit. In view of the rights and interests protection of employees in the two vertical industries of takeout and express delivery, attention is being paid and actively promoted.

Once the guidance document was published, meituan's share price fell 17.66% to HK $194 on July 27, down 13.76% the previous day. In fact, the opinion is not only aimed at meituan.

Both meituan and hungry Mo officials responded to the reporters of the 21st century economic report that they had received and studied seriously. They had cooperated with relevant departments to carry out several rounds of research and would resolutely implement the guidance and strive to protect the legitimate rights and interests of relevant subjects of the platform, including riders.

In addition, according to the relevant sources of hungry men, close preparations have been made for the protection of rider's occupational injury and other related work.

New forms of employment to strengthen protection

On July 23, the Ministry of human resources and social security and other eight departments jointly issued the guiding opinions on safeguarding the labor security rights and interests of new employment forms of workers, focusing on the outstanding problems faced by the protection of the rights and interests of new employment forms of workers, and making clear that enterprises should employ according to law and regulations, especially those that do not fully conform to the establishment of labor relations but are labor managed by enterprises, We should bear the corresponding responsibility for the protection of the rights and interests of the new form of employment.

To some extent, this is also the government side in the new form of employment environment, actively explore the new direction of labor relations legislation, and earnestly safeguard the labor security of the new employment form.

As a matter of fact, as early as June 23, the Ministry of transport, the State Post Office, the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of human resources and social security, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of market supervision and the all China Federation of trade unions jointly issued the opinions on safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of courier groups. Starting from the whole industry chain of express industry, focus on key links and key issues, ensure the reasonable labor remuneration of couriers, improve social security, optimize the production and operation environment, and implement the main responsibility of express enterprises and standardize the employment management. To standardize the healthy development of express delivery team in an all-round way.

In the face of the standardization of online catering platform employment, the labor rights and interests of delivery workers are paid attention to. It is understood that since last year, many riders' work experience and rights and interests protection problems have been gradually improved and solved.

Dai Qiang, who has worked on all major takeout platforms, told 21st century economic news that he had registered as a rider when he was still in the stage of burning money and subsidies in meituan. At the beginning, it was crowdsourcing mode, which was relatively free. The commuting time was decided by myself, but the income was not guaranteed. Later, a team was set up to clock in and out on time every day. The commission amount of each order was set by the team site, and the salary was settled monthly, which was relatively guaranteed“ However, no matter crowdsourcing mode or team mode, there is no minimum wage standard, and you can only be responsible for an accident when you send a bill. "

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet platform, "casual economy" also quietly arrived, more and more workers have obtained new employment opportunities“ Under the new working mode of "platform + individual", working hours are relatively free and flexible, which has become a new choice for many young people. However, how to protect the rights and interests of casual workers has increasingly become the focus and difficulty of the society. Lou Yu, Professor of the school of civil and commercial economic law of China University of political science and law and director of the Institute of social law, believes that in the face of the diverse needs of social security for the riders and other flexible employees, it is a major challenge and an urgent problem to explore a new labor security system that is flexible, conforms to the interests of workers and does not affect the development of new economic formats.

Platform or increase cost investment

In recent years, with the rise of the platform economy, a large number of employment opportunities have been created, and the number of new forms of employment such as online car Hailing drivers, takeout delivery personnel, online appointment truck drivers and other new forms of employment have increased greatly. According to the data of the Ministry of human resources and social security, China's labor force is about 900 million, of which 200 million belong to the flexible employment group.

Some experts pointed out that there are many complicated problems such as hidden danger of personal safety, insufficient income and poor security for online car Hailing drivers and truck drivers. It is suggested that measures should be taken to protect the rights and interests of online car Hailing drivers from establishing a social security system, reasonably relaxing the household registration restrictions of online car Hailing drivers, improving the platform scoring mechanism and smooth complaint mechanism.

From the proposals of the two sessions in the past two years, it is found that the complexity of the employees' security of the "casual economy" mainly focuses on the issues of employment and social security of the employees in the "casual economy". In addition, the contradiction of insufficient flexibility of social insurance and the heavy burden of workers and enterprises caused by high fees also need to be solved. At the same time, some low skilled workers in the new form of employment mode, in a passive state, unstable work, imperfect security and other issues, but also to ensure the healthy development of the "odd jobs economy" put forward new challenges.

At the same time, it will be a huge investment for the platform to improve the protection rights and interests of the takeaway. According to the riders' employment report in the first half of 2020 released by meituan last year, the total number of riders who earn income through meituan in the first half of 2020 will reach 2.952 million. No matter how you pay for the rider's social security, meituan will have an extra cost of employing people.

Li Min, a special researcher of ECOSOC e-commerce research center and senior partner of Shanghai Hansheng law firm, said in an interview with 21st century economic reporter that the rapid development of emerging formats has led to the lag of industry standards. In the role of the whole takeout service, there is a big gap between the rights and interests of the platform, businesses, riders and consumers. The promulgation of the "opinions" can set the keynote of the labor relationship between the rider and the platform, that is, the platform must pay attention to the social security and labor security responsibilities for the riders. In the short term, it may increase the cost of the takeout platform and increase the Commission of takeout again. However, in the long run, it will change the overall takeout business structure, and improve the rider's labor security and personnel efficiency.

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