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Written by: Lin Zhitong
2020-08-25 16:49
Last update date: 2020-08-25 16:49The new crown pneumonia epidemic situation has improved recently, and the number of infected people has continued to decline. However, the government has only relaxed the policy of restricting gatherings to a limited extent, which is still not enough to revitalize the hotel and catering industry. The Hotel and Catering Practitioners Association held a press conference today (25th) to release the results of the questionnaire survey, and urged the government to improve the employment protection clauses to strengthen the protection of the suspended and unemployed.
Liang Jingwen said that hotel staff and frontline doctors face the same risk of infection. (Photo by Lin Zhitong)
The Secretary-General of the Association Ye Liuqing said that they conducted the "Ensure Employment 2.0 Survey" from August 15 to 21, and collected replies from 1081 practitioners. Among them, more than 60% of the respondents were unemployed, underemployed, or were being given no pay. ; Even if the company has applied for the guaranteed employment subsidy, employees do not know whether they can benefit. "Some employers will "go to the top", as long as they ensure that the beneficiaries are the same, they will fire the original employees and then hire others at a low price."
The staff in the hotel industry face a high risk of infection. Liang Jingwen, director-general of the association, pointed out that some guests conduct quarantine on their own. To protect the safety of their families, they choose to live in hotels. Invisible patients may cause infections among employees. "The dangers they (hotel employees) face are similar to those faced by frontline medical staff." In the survey, 50% of the respondents stated that their company did not have enough epidemic prevention equipment, such as masks and gloves, which not only increased the transmission rate. , And make employees more psychological pressure.
Yau Yiu-cheng, deputy convenor of the Employee Rights Concern Group of the Federation of Trade Unions Supervising the Government’s Anti-epidemic Fund, said that some employees were forced to pay half of the food, and the company even fired employees before the bonus was distributed to reduce expenditure. The Federation of Trade Unions therefore put forward four suggestions, hoping that the government will provide the unemployed with a 6-month cash allowance with a ceiling of 9,000 yuan in a short period of time, and study the establishment of an "unemployment assistance fund"; secondly, a one-time allowance of 10,000 yuan will be provided to frontline employees As support and encouragement; finally, a real-name system was added to the job-guaranteed plan, restricting employers from "preparing the face" and recruiting new colleagues at low prices.
Mr. Xi (pseudonym), a waitress who works in hotels and banquets, said that he had been working in the form of "speculation" for many years and had been forced to suspend work for 7 months during the epidemic. "We really stopped talking, and now we can only live on savings." To him, the job-guarantee program is an untouchable grape. Because there is no fixed employer and income, it cannot benefit. I hope the government will pay more attention to them. , Guaranteeing employment can save unemployment.
▼The third wave of measures such as the government's extension of the gathering restriction order and the ban on eating in the evening market ▼
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