Who Should Be Blamed For "The Salary Cannot Rise To The Guideline"?

　　“ wages Who should be blamed for failing to reach the guideline?

Yesterday, the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Jiangsu Province released the 2011 provincial enterprise wage guidelines. When it is difficult to recruit workers“ Salary increase ”Under the general environment of high voices, Jiangsu has significantly increased the wage increase of enterprises this year: at least 6%. It is reported that this year enterprise The base line of wage growth is 13% - 15%, and the lower limit of enterprise wage growth is 6% - 8%. There is no upper limit of enterprise wage growth.

It's just that soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers. For the working class, it's probably not normal that they don't want to "raise wages". Not only that, it is a common phenomenon that wages are not spent, even "moonlight", against the background of high house prices and rising prices eating up wages. At this time, "wage increase" has nothing to do with advancing, but more to maintain living standards and not be left behind by CPI.

However, it is obvious that the "wage increase" can not be achieved only by the wishful thinking of the wage earners. Although there is a wage negotiation mechanism, since there is no compulsion, whether or not to increase, and how much, ultimately depends on the face of the boss. At this time, Jiangsu Province not only did not set up an enterprise wage growth line, but also set a bottom line of 6% - 8% wage increase. Such a corporate wage guidance line is really impressive.

However, if we think that with wage growth coming down the line, "wage increase" will come naturally, and it is probably too early to be optimistic. In fact, although the salary guidance line is issued by the Provincial Human Resources and Social Security Department, as the organization and department to protect the rights and interests of employees, it certainly has a say in the interests of employees, but as an administrative organ and industry association, it can not provide specific substantive protection for the "salary guidance line", and the realization of the "salary guidance line" still lacks the necessary premise.

To be specific, if the wage guideline really wants to become a wage increase, it obviously depends on the specific implementation of this regulation by the specific enterprise. However, since the "wage increase regulation" is only "guidance" rather than "enforcement", for specific enterprises, due to their different operating conditions and the different ideas of the decision-making layer of the enterprise, The extent to which this provision can be fulfilled clearly needs to be questioned. If an enterprise refuses to accept the guidance of this wage increase regulation, and even refuses to comply with the offline wage increase, at least there is no solution to these practical problems in the regulation.

In addition, a more realistic problem is that for enterprises with poor performance, the minimum wage increase of 6% is "easy to say", but it is more or less like "standing up and talking without pain". For enterprises with poor performance or even operating losses, even their own operating conditions are difficult to sustain, cash flow is difficult to maintain, and the survival of enterprises is difficult to ensure. Even if enterprises really want to increase wages for employees, I am afraid they are in a poor position, and it is difficult for a clever woman to make bricks without straw. At this time, it is only for enterprises to find ways to change into "real gold and silver". If a loss making enterprise with poor efficiency is forced to "raise wages", it is not only likely to become the last straw to crush the cash flow of the enterprise, but even if the enterprise has not closed down, it is also likely to respond by layoffs, which obviously should not be the original intention of the "wage growth line". Not only that, but even for enterprises with good performance, if the boss is reluctant to give employees a raise, what countermeasures can be taken to appeal the salary guideline? It also needs to be put on a question mark. A friend of the author works in a foreign enterprise in Nanjing. Influenced by the financial crisis, he has not received a salary increase for several years, and this year's salary increase is only 3%. For such enterprises, how the salary guideline should be effective also needs to be asked.

In a word, the "wage increase regulation of at least 6%" sounds beautiful and its starting point is not lack of goodwill, but just such a "wage guidance line" is obviously not enough to ensure that the income of wage earners can catch up with the CPI. As for the so-called "6% growth below the line", if it fails to rise and there is no place to complain, it may only increase the depression of wage earners. In this sense, to truly achieve this income growth goal, I am afraid that more pragmatic measures and effective guarantees are needed beyond the "wage guidelines".