Group and Self Theory｜More and more non-staff personnel are being owed wages

In the face of a more severe employment situation, many college graduates choose to take on part-time jobs first.

On the one hand, it can alleviate financial pressure, and on the other hand, they can look for better opportunities while working, taking exams, and searching for jobs.

In the past few years, this path was indeed regarded by many as a relatively stable transitional choice.

But now it’s becoming increasingly difficult to work, because the arrears of wages for non-staff personnel have become a more common phenomenon.

A classmate worked as a non-staff member in a grassroots unit, with a considerable workload and even overtime, but the salary was much lower than that of the staff members.

What’s even more painful is that their wages have been in arrears since August last year.

They reported the situation through various channels, but it was not resolved for a long time, and the reply they received was always that the financial department was trying its best to raise funds.

Until the end of January this year, when we met, their wage arrears had not been resolved. As for whether it was resolved later, there was no new news.

Similar complaints are also common on the internet. Many non-staff personnel have complained: their monthly salary is only more than 2,000 yuan, and they often face arrears.

Some people also said that they are really working on loans.

There are also those who have been in arrears for 8 months and are still hesitating whether to resign:

This phenomenon is not surprising at all.

First of all, after the land finance has been shut down, many local governments are burdened with huge debt pressure, which is a well-known fact.

In this case, ensuring the wages of the staff and ensuring the normal operation of the institutions are the most important things.

And the ones who make sacrifices are the non-staff personnel.

Economists have analyzed that in addition to the pressure of local debt, another key factor causing this situation is the imbalance in resource allocation.

In recent years, the country has tilted a large amount of funds, resources, and policies towards emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and robots.

While promoting industrial upgrading, this will inevitably lead to the squeezing of education, medical care, and infrastructure maintenance, resulting in a reduction in financial expenditures in these fields.

Therefore, some places have appeared with infrastructure repairs not being timely, the quality of medical care in public hospitals declining, and the wages of non-staff personnel being in arrears.

From this perspective, the suggestion of some people’s deputies this year to “significantly increase the pension of farmers” certainly reflects the desire to improve people’s livelihood, but how likely is it to be implemented under the current financial conditions?

After all, in many local governments, the debt pressure is heavy, and even the wages of non-staff personnel are difficult to be paid in a timely manner. Where does the fiscal space come from? This is still an unavoidable realistic problem.