Crusade Against "996": How Can We Do The Wrong Thing In The Name Of Justice?

Micro-blog user "something on the Internet" drying out a PPT photo, and said, "wave company requests employees to apply for voluntary abandonment of annual leave and the implementation of 6 x 12 hours working day spring festival, national day call."

The title of the PPT photo is "endeavor application (discussion)". The text shows that: those who apply to become the company's endeavor voluntarily give up all paid annual leave, voluntarily carry out non mandatory overtime work, volunteer 12 hours a day, work 6 days a week, work overtime unconditionally during the big holidays such as the Spring Festival, national day, and so on, and resolutely obey the company's arrangements for any job location.

Reporters and three listed companies of the wave group consulted on the matter, and no reply was received as of press time.

Recently, 58 cities came out of the "996" work system, that is to say, they work at 9 o'clock on weekdays, work at 9 o'clock, and work 6 days a week.

Some netizens said: for the adjustment of the work system, no official documents have been issued, just oral communication, and no additional subsidies.

58 city side said: for Internet Co, every year 9 and October are the peak stage of platform business traffic.

58 the city also stressed that the group would not force everyone to follow the "

"Regulations" to arrange work.

Both companies use a 12 day working day system of 6 days a week, and they say overtime is voluntary, but they all work overtime in the name of justice.

It is conceivable that the new system of work which is far beyond the statutory working hours of the state and does not have statutory overtime pay must not be the "endeavor" of the company, and the consequences are unpredictable.

Labor law allows

Overtime, but determined the scope of overtime work, overtime time should not exceed 36 hours per month; overtime can not be arranged to pay overtime wages, statutory holidays must pay 3 times the overtime pay; non statutory four overtime, the unit requires workers to work overtime with the workers and trade unions agreed to negotiate.

Obviously, the employing units require employees.

In addition, four workers must agree to work overtime.

Employees agree to work overtime is more complex, first, in order to get more economic benefits, especially for low-income workers, the main reason is; two, after weighing the pros and cons, in order to maintain the "rice bowl" voluntary overtime; three is "moral" kidnapping overtime, such as the number of employees to make contributions to the development of enterprises, promote the development of enterprises and so on.

I recall two surveys of employee engagement three or four years ago. In 2012, a survey jointly issued by the Nanjing Federation of trade unions, the Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences and city pilots showed that employees in state owned and state-controlled enterprises had the lowest degree of engagement.

I am afraid that one of the important indicators of this survey is to investigate workers' labor efficiency is not high, work hard and not diligent.

In November 2013, Gallup released a survey of the proportion of employees to work in the world. The proportion of China's dedicated employees was at the bottom, followed by Japan, followed by South Korea.

Because Gallup's assessment of employees' devotion to work is not related to their hard work, it only measures the strengths and weaknesses of employees.

It seems that people's cognition and measurement of employee engagement are not consistent.

In the eyes of the Chinese, the dedication of the workers is to say "dedication" rather than cognition and feeling of work.

Therefore, enterprises are used to kidnapping labourers without compensation for work overtime, which is regarded as a "dedication" for the development of enterprises.

We must realize that moral abduction can not break the bottom line of law, for example, overtime work without overtime pay. Employers or senior executives can work overtime voluntarily, because they are not workers who are well regulated by labor laws. Employees of employers are subject to overtime work restrictions, even if they are willing to do so.

Laborers "voluntarily" are illegal, and they should also be held responsible for the illegal system of employing units.

The authority of the rule of law does not allow harm.