多地下調年工資指導基準線 山西降幅最大

Five provinces, municipalities and autonoMous regions across China have issued their 2016 guidelines on wage increases, heralding a smaller wage increase this year as most wage growth rates fall.

近日，全國已有五個省市區發佈了2016年的工資指導線，且工資增長率多爲下調，這預示着今年工資增幅將放緩。

As of July, municipal governments in Beijing, Tianjin and the provincial governments in Shandong, Shanxi and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region have laid out suggested wage increase levels for enterprises.

截至7月，北京、天津、山東、山西和內蒙古五個省市區的地方政府公佈了企業工資的建議增長水平。

Guidelines on wage increases, introduced in 1997 in China, can be divided into three levels: average suggested wage increase, maximum suggested wage increase and minimum suggested wage increase.

關於工資增長的指導線，是在1997年引入中國的，可分爲三個層次：工資增長預警線、工資增長基準線和工資增長下線。

Data shows the average suggested wage increase of the five regions all dropped to below 10%, with Shanxi recording the biggest decline of 3%.

數據顯示，這五個地區的工資指導基準線均降至10%以下，其中，山西降幅最大，達3%。

Su Hainan, vice president of the China Association for Labor Studies, said as China's economy faces downward pressure, the growth of wages should be in accordance with economic growth.

中國勞動學會副會長蘇海南表示，由於我國經濟面臨下行壓力，工資增長跟經濟增速也要相適應。

The guidelines are usually released in the first half of the year. Guidelines on wage increases are "based on a region's GDP, price rising level, labor productivity and overall wage level of last year", Su says, adding that it is not compulsory for an employer to increase wages according to the guidelines.

該指導線通常於每年的上半年發佈。蘇海南稱，工資指導線是根據地區生產總值、物價上漲水平、勞動生產率和上一年度的工資總體水平得出的。他補充說道，僱主並非必須按照工資指導線漲薪。

"If maximum suggested wage increase sets too high, employers will feel hard to pay labor cost, impairing their competitiveness in the market. If minimum suggested wage increase is low, employee' life will be affected by the rising goods prices", Su said.

蘇海南表示：“如果工資增長預警線太高，那麼僱主會覺得很難支付勞動成本。如果工資增長下線太低，那麼職工的生活將會受到物價上漲的影響。”