As things stand, the dust has settled on delayed retirement, despite being voluntary, flexible and phased.
Allowing silver-aged workers to continue to exert their surplus heat is a measure for us to respond to the changes in the labor market in an aging society, and it is also a way to benefit the country and the people by allowing the experienced elderly to continue to exert their surplus heat. I believe that we, as a member of the state, should actively support and cooperate with this high-level initiative of the state, so that this system can operate healthily from the beginning.
At present, there is a perception in society that after the implementation of delayed retirement, "the elderly will be on the job, and the young will be unemployed". I have consulted some information on this and think this assertion is still debatable.
According to the 2011 World Labour Organization (ILO) study on unemployment among older workers (aged 45 or 50 and over) and youth (15-24 years), the successful transition of young people from school to work has been hampered in countries and regions where delayed retirement has been implemented.
In addition, youth unemployment is also strongly related to national (or regional) economic growth. When the total amount of economic activity in the country or region is high, the level of employment is also good, and therefore the youth employment rate is also high. Despite the experience and knowledge accumulated by older people, it is often difficult for older people to find suitable new jobs when they re-enter the job market, so the delayed retirement of older people is not a direct cause of underemployment among young people.
United States survey data, August 2021
United States survey data, August 2021
And according to data from the August 2020 and August 2021 census surveys of the United States Census Bureau and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is clear that there has been ageism against older people in the labor market from an employer's perspective. In the job market, employers are basically reluctant to hire the elderly, one is because the elderly are less flexible, less adaptable to work, and have lower work efficiency and productivity; In addition, the elderly are more likely to have sudden illnesses at work, and employers are reluctant to incur the liability risk of accidents caused by them, so young people have always been the mainstream in the job market.
At present, in the countries that have achieved delayed retirement in the West, in order to encourage the elderly to re-enter the workforce and reduce the pressure on the government in terms of pensions, pensions and medical insurance, the government generally eliminates the doubts of employers and encourages the elderly to continue to work by reducing corporate taxes, strengthening the employment protection of the elderly labor force, and increasing medical care for the elderly labor force. However, in reality, employers still prefer to hire young people rather than many government subsidies or benefits, because the re-employment of the elderly still has greater legal risks.
United States survey data, August 2021
At present, after the implementation of delayed retirement in Western countries, the positions in which the elderly continue to work are often engaged in mental work such as management or light physical work, and the elderly who do not have a skill or heavy physical positions often quit their jobs early, and it is still difficult for them to re-employ.
Therefore, based on the above information and data, I think we should have the following understandings: first, delayed retirement of the elderly is to continue to stay in the original position and give full play to the residual heat, not to re-employment of the elderly; Second, delayed retirement in various countries is a measure to deal with the aging society, is the trend of the times, in the long run, the labor market will play a role in the regulation of labor distribution, so it is unfounded to worry that after the implementation of delayed retirement in our country, young people will have no jobs and a large number of unemployed.
However, I think that the implementation of delayed retirement in our country has a certain degree of complexity, and we must formulate and standardize various rules and regulations and procedures for delayed retirement from the beginning, so that good things must be better from the beginning:
First, the people we formulate the delayed retirement policy are often the managers who are most likely to enjoy the delayed retirement benefits, so the formulation of this policy must be selfless and convincing to the masses;
Second, after the implementation of delayed retirement, these personnel are management posts and must be withdrawn from front-line management posts, and those who are leaders must be relieved of their leadership posts, and delayed retirement cannot be allowed to become a system guarantee for leading cadres to continue to serve as officials.
Third, the salaries of cadres and workers who enjoy delayed retirement should be commensurate with their responsibilities, and they should not be relegated to the second line and still receive the first-line salary, which is unfair to young people on the job;
Fourth, the purpose of delaying the retirement of cadres and workers to continue to work should be to play a role in passing on the experience and technology to the new generation, so as to achieve the purpose of continuing to promote the work with high quality, rather than letting them eat empty salaries, or occupy the pit without;
Finally, employees who delay retirement can withdraw from their posts at any time and achieve complete retirement instead of tying them to their posts.
So I think it's a good thing to do that, and to delay retirement as we move towards an aging society.
In short, delayed retirement has been standardized from the beginning, and all walks of life in society have their own place, and the labor force of all ages has their own achievements, which must be a good thing for the development of our country. In this case, "the elderly are on the job, the young are unemployed" is naturally a false issue, and other doubts will naturally disappear. (Zhang Yuezhuo, Xi'an, Shaanxi)