Whether the standard of maternity allowance for the elderly meets the requirements for stable employment
The elderly childbearing subsidy refers to certain economic subsidies provided to encourage elderly couples to have children. However, whether it meets the requirements of stable employment is controversial. This paper will elaborate on this issue from four aspects.
One aspect: fertility risk and family stability
The increase of childbearing age has brought many fertility risks, including the increase of children's risk of illness and the aggravation of pregnancy complications. Medical expenses and related insurance expenses also increased. In order to ensure the stability of the family, the standard of old-age birth subsidy should cover the medical expenses before and after childbirth, as well as the children's medical expenses from birth to school term, and provide certain unemployment insurance and pension insurance. Only in this way can we truly guarantee the stable employment of elderly couples.
Taking a real hospital as an example, the hospital has set up a special department for elderly childbearing to provide special medical services for elderly pregnant women. However, many families are still unable to bear the high medical expenditure due to the insufficient coverage of the elderly childbearing subsidy standard. Therefore, the subsidy standard should take into account the actual medical expenses, so as to reduce the economic burden of elderly couples and enable them to maintain stable employment.
Aspect 2: Workplace competition and age discrimination
With the intensification of workplace competition and the uncertainty of the economic market, elderly couples face greater difficulties in the process of employment. Especially women, who are more vulnerable to age discrimination after giving birth at an advanced age, lead to limited career development and lower income. The elderly childbearing subsidy standard should be able to make up for the unfair workplace caused by childbearing and provide better occupational protection for elderly couples. For example, training opportunities and skill enhancement projects can be provided to increase their competitiveness in the market.
However, the reality is that the standard of maternity allowance for the elderly does not solve the problems of workplace competition and age discrimination. In a real enterprise, although the enterprise has increased the maternity allowance for the elderly to a certain extent, there are still some elderly couples who suffer from workplace discrimination after giving birth and are unable to obtain positions and benefits consistent with their actual working ability. Therefore, more attention should be paid to and improvements should be made to the standard of maternity subsidies for the elderly to ensure their stable employment.
Aspect 3: Nurturing costs and family economic pressure
With the growth of children, education expenditure has become an important burden for elderly couples to bear. In order to support the cost of childbearing, the subsidy standard for elderly childbearing should take into account the education funds of children, and provide corresponding education subsidies and childcare support. Only in this way can elderly couples better raise their children and maintain stable employment.
In a real place, the standard of maternity allowance for the elderly only includes the cost of childbirth, not the comprehensive cost of children's education. This has brought enormous economic pressure to many elderly couples, leading some families to choose not to have children. Therefore, the standard of old-age birth subsidy should be more comprehensive and comprehensive, covering all stages of child rearing, so as to meet the requirements of stable employment.
Aspect 4: Population structure and social security
China is currently facing the dilemma of an aging society. The standard of old-age birth subsidy should be able to promote the rational adjustment of population structure and maintain the stability of labor resources. At the same time, the subsidy standard should also be combined with the social security system to provide better old-age insurance and welfare benefits for elderly couples and alleviate their worries.
However, in a real social security system, the old-age birth subsidy has not been fully guaranteed and supported. In terms of pension and basic medical insurance, elderly couples did not receive additional social security. Therefore, the elderly childbearing subsidy standard needs to be linked with the social security to form a more perfect system to ensure the stable employment of elderly couples.
Summary
To sum up, there are still some shortcomings in meeting the requirements of stable employment in terms of the elderly childbearing subsidy standard. In order to ensure the stable employment of elderly couples, comprehensive consideration and improvement should be made from such aspects as fertility risk and family stability, workplace competition and age discrimination, parenting costs and family economic pressure, population structure and social security. Only through a more comprehensive and comprehensive subsidy standard can the stable employment of elderly couples be truly guaranteed.
