New employment policy is issued: millions of couriers are expected to receive "discounts" when entering social security

　　The rapid development of emerging industries such as e-commerce, express delivery and sharing economy has become an important factor driving the improvement of my country's employment data. However, compared with traditional industries, practitioners in these new industries generally have insufficient labor protection, and the signing rate of labor contracts and the number of people participating in social security are not high.

　　The "Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Employment and Entrepreneurship in the Current and Future Period" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") passed at the Executive Meeting of the State Council on April 5 stipulates the employment and social security systems of these emerging industries: enterprises that sign labor contracts with employees must provide social security for employees and can enjoy employment subsidies. Other practitioners can participate in pension, medical care and provident fund as flexible employment personnel.

　　Zhang Yizhen, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, told Caixin at the regular policy briefing of the State Council on the 7th that emerging business formats include express delivery and sharing economy and other industries. The new employment policies issued this time will provide certain support to emerging business formats and new employment forms.

　　Couriers are expected to benefit first

　　The express delivery industry has become one of the important industries in our country. Data shows that my country's express delivery industry currently has about 2 million couriers. Not applying to social security for couriers has always been a hidden rule in the express delivery industry. Except for some express delivery companies such as SF Express and EMS, most of the grassroots employees of express delivery companies do not have "five insurances and one fund".

　　At the briefing of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security at the end of last year, Tang Jisong, director of the Social Insurance Management Center of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that promoting flexible employment personnel, including couriers, to participate in insurance is a key task in 2017.

　　In addition to the fact that couriers do not have social security, in addition to the unwillingness of companies to provide social security for employees due to profit considerations and strong employee mobility, there is also a very important reason that the current employment support policies are difficult to benefit this industry.

　　Zhang Yizhen said that the rapid development of emerging business formats is a new phenomenon. The current employment policies, social security policies and employment support are all based on the labor relations of traditional employers in the past. Whether these new business formats without traditional labor relations and unit labor contracts can be enjoyed and how to enjoy these preferential policies are faced with difficulties.

　　Not only couriers, but also online store operators and online car-hailing drivers are facing the same situation. Taking online car-hailing as an example, online car-hailing drivers are gradually moving towards full-time. Many online car-hailing drivers work more than normal full-time hours. Except for some drivers from B2C companies, many C2C drivers are facing the situation of no social security.

　　Zhang Yizhen told the First Financial Daily that one of the important considerations for the upgrade of active employment policy this time is to adapt to the needs of economic and social development, improve the original employment policies for the emerging new business formats, and clarify the paths for practitioners of new business formats to participate in social insurance and pay housing provident fund.

　　The "Opinions" stipulate two situations: First, employees who have signed labor contracts with emerging business enterprises can participate in employee social insurance in accordance with the law. For enterprises that meet the conditions, they can enjoy the subsidy policy for enterprises to absorb employment.

　　Second, other practitioners can participate in pension and medical insurance as flexible employment personnel, or pay housing provident fund. At the same time, the opinions also require the exploration of ways to protect unemployment and work-related injury insurance for flexible employment personnel.

　　In view of the relatively strong liquidity of practitioners in new business formats, Zhang Yizhen said that it is necessary to accelerate the construction of platforms such as online social security and national housing provident fund transfer and continuation, so as to provide more convenient conditions for practitioners to participate in insurance, transfer and continuation across regions, enjoy employment, social security and other related services.

　　In the investigation, First Financial News learned that although the State Council has given preferential treatment for the social security issues of new business format practitioners, some local restrictions still need to be broken through in the specific implementation. For example, the policies for flexible employment participation in insurance are not the same in various places. Wuhan, Changsha and other regions have relaxed the household registration restrictions on flexible employment participation, and stipulated that they can participate in insurance at their workplaces, but flexible employment still has household registration restrictions in big cities such as Beijing. There are also some places that require flexible employment personnel to participate in pension at their workplace, but not in medical insurance.

　　Beijing's 12333 hotline said that only Beijing registered population can participate in pension, medical care and unemployment insurance as flexible employment after putting files in the streets and intermediaries. People who are not registered in Beijing cannot participate in insurance.

　　Zhang Yizhen also said that the next step will be to improve the access management of emerging business formats, and preferential policies that encourage entrepreneurship, innovation and development will be open to emerging business formats and enterprises, and encourage government departments to take the lead in purchasing products and services of emerging business formats.

　　Active employment policy upgraded to version 5.0

　　Judging from the evolution of the active employment policy, the "Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Employment and Entrepreneurship in the Current and Future Period" has just been passed by the State Council Executive Meeting. It is the 5.0 version of my country's active employment policy.

　　According to the Chinese government website, Premier Li Keqiang specifically asked the title of the document to be changed from the original limited "This year" to "current and future period" because "employment is the top priority, not only to be based on the present but also to the long-term."

　　In 2015, Xin Changxing, then deputy minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that in 2002, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Reemployment of Laid-off and Unemployed Personnel", marking this document, and established an active employment policy with Chinese characteristics. If this document is compared to 1.0 of the active employment policy, from 2005 to 2008, several relevant documents expanded, enriched and improved the active employment policy, and formed the 2.0 version of the active employment policy.

　　Xin Changxing said that by 2009, a more active employment policy was formed in response to the financial crisis and was considered to be version 3.0. The "Opinions on Further Improving Employment and Entrepreneurship Work under the New Situation" issued in 2015 combines "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" with employment. The 4.0 version of the active employment policy with Chinese characteristics.

　　Based on this, we can infer that just passed this "Opinion" to be regarded as the 5.0 version of my country's active employment policy. The "Opinions" made comprehensive arrangements for further improving entrepreneurship and employment from six aspects: adhering to the employment-first strategy, supporting the development of new employment forms, promoting employment and entrepreneurship through entrepreneurship by entrepreneurship, strengthening education and training and employment and entrepreneurship services, and effectively strengthening organization and implementation.

　　At the executive meeting on April 5, Li Keqiang clearly demanded that in the face of the severe situation of increasing employment pressure this year, all departments should regard employment as the top priority, and implement the employment priority strategy and more active employment policies in accordance with the deployment of the "Government Work Report". Not only should we implement the existing policies, but we should also fully support the new measures introduced.

　　"The introduction of macro policies must first consider the driving force on employment and entrepreneurship." Li Keqiang demanded that when formulating major economic policies such as finance, taxation, finance, and industry, the impact on employment should be comprehensively evaluated to promote economic growth and expand employment. (Source of this article: First Financial Daily)

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