I want to be emperor

Chapter 777 Labor Security Act

At the end of December in the 29th year of Chengshun, after a month-long discussion, and extensively listened to the opinions of people from all walks of life, including workers, private enterprises, government-run enterprises, and local officials.

The Great Chu Empire officially promulgated a brand-new law called the 'Labor Security Law', which covers labor contracts, minimum wage standards, maximum working hours, legal holidays, overtime wages, work-related injuries and other aspects.

All companies are required to hire employees and must sign labor contracts with employees. The labor contract must adopt an official standard template, and the terms must not be changed without authorization. The minimum contract period is one year.

According to the labor contract, the enterprise shall not dismiss employees without reason during the contract period. Forcible dismissal needs to make up for the working years plus two salary compensation.

Unless the employee violates the employee code within the scope of the labor security law, such as disobedience to work arrangements, late arrival and early departure, miners, disclosure of corporate secrets, etc.

In addition, the enterprise shall not dismiss employees or impose fines on employees or claim compensation in the name of self-made employee rules, oral agreements, separate contracts, third-party contracts, etc.

To dismiss and impose fines on employees, the labor rules stipulated in the Labor and Social Security Law must prevail, and those determined by the enterprise are invalid.

Including enterprise losses or indirect losses caused by mistakes during working hours, third-party losses, etc., the enterprise has no right to demand compensation for labor, and all losses should be regarded as normal employment risks, and the losses shall be borne by the enterprise itself.

Of course, there is an exception for deliberate destruction of corporate property. If the amount of loss exceeds a certain value, it is also a crime of deliberate destruction of property, which is a criminal offense and not only has to lose money but also go to jail.

In addition, even if no labor contract is signed, as long as long-term and continuous actual employment occurs, it is regarded as actual employment, and workers also enjoy all legal rights and interests.

Third-party dispatched workers or self-employed short-term employees shall not exceed [-]% of the total number of employees of the enterprise.

In addition, third-party labor dispatch employees should also sign legal labor contracts. Labor service companies and dispatch workers also need to sign formal legal labor contracts and enjoy all labor protections in accordance with the law. The number of short-term temporary workers should not exceed [-]% of the total number of employees.

The minimum wage standard, the minimum hourly wage standard is set by the empire nationwide as a unified minimum standard, each province and government can use the higher-level standard as the benchmark according to their own economic conditions, and can only float upwards, but cannot reduce.

All provinces and governments issue minimum wage standards every three years, and all enterprises in the jurisdiction must sign labor contracts with workers and pay wages in strict accordance with the minimum wage standards, and offenders will be punished severely.

For example, the national unified minimum salary standard in the Great Chu Empire is [-] Chu Yuan, the minimum salary standard in Jiangnan Province is [-] Chu Yuan, and the minimum salary standard in Songjiang Prefecture is [-] Chu Yuan.

The minimum wage standard for subordinates can only be increased on the basis of the minimum wage standard for superiors and cannot be lowered.

For example, in a place with a relatively backward economy, such as a certain inland province, the minimum monthly salary standard is only [-] Chu yuan. This is also the national minimum standard formulated by the Great Chu Empire. When it comes to the government, the standard of [-] Chu Yuan can only be used, and it cannot be lowered any further.

The monthly salary is [-] Chu Yuan, which is the minimum salary standard in the Great Chu Empire.

At the same time, this minimum standard applies to workers in all institutions. No matter what company or institution employs them, no matter what position they are in, whether they are male or female, old or young, long-term or short-term, their salary should not be lower than this figure. .

Short-time employment is based on this standard, which is converted into hourly wages.

The maximum working hours, regular working hours per day shall not exceed ten hours, and overtime working hours shall not exceed two hours. That is to say, regular working hours and overtime working hours shall not exceed twelve hours per day.

To ensure employees' rest time and physical health.

Regular working hours for heavy physical, high temperature, and dangerous jobs should not exceed eight hours, overtime should not exceed two hours, and the longest working hours per day should not exceed ten hours. Companies are required to provide cooling drinks, safety measures, etc. working conditions.

During working hours, or outside of working hours, but being injured due to work assigned by the company, it is regarded as a work-related injury, and the company shall bear the treatment expenses, nutrition expenses, etc., and compensation and funeral expenses shall be paid if the death is caused by work-related injuries.

At the same time, it is stipulated that the statutory rest day shall continue for one day every ten days, but it is required to give no less than half a month of paid annual leave per year. Employees can apply for paid annual leave after one year of employment according to their own needs. Those who are less than one year shall be converted according to the proportion .

It is worth noting that the Great Chu Empire did not have the concept of seven days a week. This is a Western religious concept that does not exist in the society of the Great Chu Empire. The working days of the Great Chu Empire are carried out according to the traditional thirty days of each month.

If you work overtime outside the regular working hours every day, you must pay [-] times the salary. If you want to work overtime on statutory holidays, you must pay double the salary.

In addition, there are a series of other messy clauses, which are basically formulated from the perspective of protecting the interests of employees.

In order to ensure the implementation and promotion of the Labor Security Law, the Great Chu Empire established the General Administration of Labor Security, which ranks from the second rank and is directly under the cabinet.

This department is specialized in protecting the interests of workers, accepting complaints and arbitrations from workers, and at the same time has the right to impose administrative fines on companies that violate the Labor Security Law, and the department will also reward individuals who report companies violating the Labor Security Law. deducted directly from the fine.

The implementation of the Labor Security Law was also the first time that the Great Chu Empire protected the interests of laborers at the legal level.

Of course, there will definitely be a lot of problems in the subsequent implementation, but you can’t stop doing it for a long time because of the problems. After doing it, you find problems, then you can gradually improve them.

In short, Luo Zhixue wants to firmly hold the group of workers in his own hands, and absolutely will not let this large group of workers, which will continue to increase in the future, drift away from the foundation of the empire.

And the price!

Naturally, the interests of various enterprises, especially those capitalists of private enterprises, have been lost.

As for the government-run enterprises... they are government-run enterprises, and the money belongs to the state, so the person in charge of the government-run enterprises will not feel sad.

The money of private enterprises is owned by capitalists themselves. If you ask them to give workers more wages and more rest time, it will increase their costs and reduce the competitiveness of enterprises. The key is to get them out of their own pockets. pocket money.

So the opposition business is still pretty big.

But such objections are useless.

Because the economic subject of the Great Chu Empire is still official capital, the proportion of private capital in the economy is actually not very large in the Great Chu Empire, which is about [-]% to [-]%.

The famous enterprises in the Great Chu Empire are basically government-run enterprises, and there are actually very few large private-run enterprises, and even if they are large-scale private enterprises, many of the shareholders in them are actually official capital.

Such as Lee's Steel!

The company can be said to be a banner among private companies, but in fact more than 50.00% of the company's shares are in the hands of official capital.

For example, the Guangdong Industrial Department, the Guangzhou Industrial Department, and the Foshan Industrial Division, three levels of government-run institutions, hold about ten percent of the shares of Lee's Steel, and then there is another vote of government-run financial institutions that holds about ten percent. shares, and some government-run enterprises, such as Guangzhou Iron and Steel Company, also hold a certain percentage of the company's shares.

In the end, in fact, the official industrial organizations and government-run enterprises jointly hold more than 50.00% of the shares of Lee's Steel, but they are scattered in the hands of dozens of institutions or enterprises. It is not obvious to outsiders. On weekdays, government-run Capital does not interfere with the operation of the enterprise too much, but the Li family in Foshan continues to control the enterprise.

But when necessary, officials can take a controlling stake in the company and decide on major strategies.

There are actually many similar situations.

Doing business in the Great Chu Empire is nothing if the scale is average.

But if you want to continue to make the company bigger and stronger, and have a great influence, um, for example, if you want to achieve a level similar to that of Li's Iron, Suqin Textile, and Song's Glass, there is no official capital. support is difficult to achieve.

It's not like administrative interference. The Great Chu Empire has long since stopped playing administrative interference in business.

Purely market behavior!
Because official capital is also capital, and official capital is also profit-seeking... Capital naturally wants to take a share of the money when it sees you making money.

It’s okay if you don’t want to accept investment or cooperation from official capital, and official capital won’t force you, and they don’t even care too much, but they turn around and invest in your competitors…

In the Great Chu Empire, the biggest capitalists were actually the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Finance, then the Royal Assets Management Division, the provincial industrial departments, and then the industrial departments of the prefectures and the industrial departments of the counties.

These are the big capitalists, not only holding huge sums of money, but also controlling a large number of enterprises and controlling the lifeblood of all walks of life.

Compared with these official capitals, the so-called capitalists in the folk are scum.

And a series of labor security laws were first implemented in government-run enterprises, and of course official administrative agencies were indispensable.

As for private enterprises, they will be temporarily given a buffer time until June 30st, [-] in Chengshun.

After the implementation at the same time, enterprises will still be given one and a half years to adapt.

If it is strictly implemented, it will start from January 31, [-] in Chengshun.

To put it bluntly, government-run enterprises will make prototypes first, private enterprises will follow up gradually according to the situation, and fully implement it after one year.

However, even if it is implemented throughout the year, Luo Zhixue estimates that the coverage will be relatively limited. Those large enterprises will naturally abide by laws and regulations, but some small and medium-sized enterprises, especially some micro enterprises, small workshops, small shops and other businesses Institutions, it is estimated that it will be difficult to fully implement it.

On the one hand, the person in charge of the enterprise does not want to bear more labor costs. On the other hand, it is also because the workers themselves lack legal knowledge. Third, even if the workers know that there is such a labor security law, they will bear it because of factors such as the high cost of rights protection. .

Therefore, although the formulated labor security law is relatively complete, it is actually very difficult to fully promote it. Don’t expect it in the short term, and it will be very difficult for every worker to obtain comprehensive labor security even after ten or twenty years. difficulty.

Luo Zhixue is very clear about this.

But even so, we still have to do things, things, do it step by step, and solve them one by one.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue does not have a big goal for the implementation of the Labor Security Law this time. It only needs that government-run enterprises and private medium and large enterprises can follow the policy, and small and micro enterprises should take their time.

When a series of labor security laws were promulgated one after another, the world was shaken. Naturally, countless groups of workers were extremely happy, while many private enterprises were sad.

Many so-called economists are also worried about the overall economic development after the promulgation of the Labor Security Law, the increase in labor costs of enterprises leads to the reduction of corporate profits and insufficient development.

But when the year turned and the Labor Security Law began to be implemented in many government-run enterprises, Chengshun's economic data in the first quarter of 30 not only did not decrease, but increased.

In particular, the growth rate of consumption data is very obvious!

After the growth of resident consumption, it has led to the growth of various industries.

Such a weird situation has silenced many so-called economists who had previously bad-mouthed economic development.

After a series of investigations, Luo Zhixue finally saw the reason why Chengshun's economic data in the first quarter of 30 grew abnormally.

Because the labor security law was widely implemented in government-run enterprises, workers received more money and had more money to spend.

At the same time, because of the existence of the labor contract, I don't have too much worry about the future, and I have more courage to consume.

Under the combination of the two, the consumption power of workers in government-run enterprises has increased significantly, and even led to the increase in consumption of real estate and large household products.

This link, in turn, led to an increase in demand from all walks of life, and ultimately drove the overall growth of the economy.

The reason is simple, workers have more money in their hands and their future is guaranteed, so they dare to consume and can consume, and the products produced by consumer companies can sell more products.

After reading the report, Luo Zhixue said to a group of courtiers: "Those entrepreneurs who oppose the labor security law don't think about it. The workers have no money and no future security. Who can sell the products they produce?"

The economy needs to be recycled. All the money has been taken away by the capitalists. How much money can the capitalists spend even if they spend lavishly?How much product is consumed?
Judging from the macroeconomic data, after the implementation of the labor security law this time, it not only protects the interests of the workers, but also draws the workers into the foundation of the empire's rule, which is of great political benefit.

Even economically, it has greatly stimulated economic growth. Although the labor costs of enterprises have increased, the market demand has also increased, and they can earn more by adopting small profits but quick turnover.

This wave is a triple win for the government, most enterprises, and workers.

Well, there are exceptions for a few capitalists who have been picking their skins for a while, clinging to their money and refusing to let go, or companies whose competitiveness is not very good.

They are the inevitable victims of the development of the times.

And their fall also made the empire more prosperous!

(End of this chapter)