Re-employment Project Requires Systematic Operation

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Re-employment Project Requires Systematic Operation

Progress of the re-employment project leaves much to be desired, a very important reason for this lies in the existence of many related complicated social problems which are hard to resolve. In the opinion of this writer, the most direct impact brought on re-employment lies mainly in the following four aspects:

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In some areas, despite the great efforts made by governments, no notable results have been made in regard to the re-employment project.

Progress of the re-employment project leaves much to be desired, a very important reason for this lies in the existence of many related complicated social problems which are hard to resolve. In the opinion of this writer, the most direct impact brought on re-employment lies mainly in the following four aspects:

First, local economic growth level restricts re-employment. In a region, if resources are limited, or resources are not effectively exploited, and natural and humane conditions are not good enough, that is bound to frighten investors away.

When there is a lack of desirable economic projects and the absence of people coming to invest, there the industrial scale is naturally out of the question, and the absorption of labor force is inevitably limited, so the re-employment project becomes something like water without source and tree without roots.

Second, contradiction between the accelerated progress of industrial technology and the mono-skill of laborer is intensifying. Economic prosperity and technical progress are a situation of development which does not come about easily, a developed industry may not necessarily bring about a thorough change to local laborers overnight. This is bound to give rise to structural contradiction in regard to work posts.

To enable laborers, who fail to catch up with technological progress and the tide of the times, to find a new job, the difficulty involved in it sometimes is no smaller than that facing regions with relatively low level of economic development. .

Third, need and supply are unbalanced in the labor market. This makes it hard to curb the practice of illegal and irregular employment in many places. The most striking manifestations of this is the employer's unbridled, illegal use of labor, the infringed laborer "is willing to get beating", while the labor management department "does not deal with the matter unless the civilian reports on the offense of the official", sometimes the department fails to handle the matter in order to balance various "macro contradictions" even after "the civilian has reported the case".

Fourth, many laid-off workers from Stated-owned enterprises, with outmoded concept about employment, find it hard to accept the new concept, such as "two-way choice" and "agreed upon wages". Even if they have found a new job, they hardly think they have been "employed". More often than not they do not understand that under the market economy, employment is meant by "finding something to eat", a job opportunity, especially a desirable job, to a great extent, can only be found gradually by " starting work first". Conceptual obstacles have also exerted none too small negative effect on the re-employment project.

Such being the case, the re-employment project is a systematic, strongly complicated work. That allows neither passivity, inertia, nor impetuosity in thinking that one can accomplish one's aim in one move. The re-employment project can be carried out successfully only when Party committees and governments at various levels make overall arrangements and consistent efforts to "develop the local economy, adjust industrial structure, create more jobs, optimize the employment environment and strengthen education and guidance to laborers in changing their outmoded concepts".

By PD Online Staff Li Yan

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