Solving the phenomenon of "heating divorce" by changing the hidden supplement of heat fee in Harbin into the explicit supplement

the government documents stipulate that men and women are equal, but in the actual implementation process, female employees in some institutions, enterprises and institutions in Harbin can't reimburse the heat expenses like their male colleagues. Therefore, in order to be able to reimburse the heat fee, some female employees choose to divorce their husbands on leave, and the phenomenon of "heating divorce" arises at the historic moment. The way to eliminate this phenomenon is to change the heat fee from "hidden supplement" to "open supplement".

1. "Heating divorce" has become a social problem

Every time before and after heating, some female teachers in a certain district of Harbin will go to the civil affairs department for divorce procedures. In fact, their "divorce" is not really for the divorce of husband and wife, but to reimburse the unit for heat expenses in this way. A few days ago, a female teacher in a certain district left a message on the website of Harbin Municipal Government: Because the District Education Commission stipulated that female workers would not be reimbursed for heating expenses, but female workers without spouses could be reimbursed, so some female teachers chose fake divorce to reimburse more than 2, yuan for heating expenses.

According to the reporter's investigation, some government agencies, enterprises and institutions in Harbin don't reimburse female employees for their heating expenses, and only divorced, widowed or older single female employees can reimburse their heating expenses, and this phenomenon has existed for many years, which has resulted in the strange phenomenon of "heating divorce" in which female employees reimburse their heating expenses and their loved ones leave.

2. The "five prohibitions" policy restricts the reimbursement of heating expenses

The reporter learned from the Harbin Municipal Government Heating Office that the General Office of Harbin Municipal Government recently issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Payment of Heating Expenses and Heating Guarantee in 28-29. The notice stipulates: "The main body of the heat fee is the owner of the house (or the lessee of public housing). Among them, the heating expenses of employees of government agencies, enterprises and institutions (including retirees) within the specified housing control standard area shall be borne by the individual employees and the unit where the property owner (or public housing tenant) is located, with the individual employees bearing 1% and the unit bearing 9%. " According to the notice, the reimbursement of heating expenses is equal to that of men and women.

At the same time, the notice also stipulates that government agencies, enterprises and institutions should list the heating expenses as compulsory expenses, pay the heating expenses on time or reimburse the heating expenses paid by employees. For units that fail to pay or reimburse the heat fee according to the regulations, the policy of "five prohibitions" will continue to be implemented: that is, no cars are allowed to be purchased and updated, no bonuses are allowed to be distributed, no leading cadres are allowed to go abroad, no advanced units are allowed, and no leading cadres are allowed to be rated as advanced individuals.

3. Female employees are helpless in front of the heat fee

As for who will be responsible for supervising the government agencies, enterprises and institutions that do not reimburse female employees for the heat fee, the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Paying the Heat Fee and Ensuring the Heating in 28-29 issued by the General Office of Harbin Municipal Government does not specify the subject of supervision.

as the competent department in charge of the management of urban heating industry, Harbin municipal government should also undertake the responsibility of supervising the "five prohibitions". But first of all, for enterprises, the heating office of Harbin municipal government cannot interfere forcibly. Many enterprises do not reimburse female employees or even all employees for their heating expenses in the name of difficulties. Secondly, for government agencies, enterprises and institutions that don't reimburse female employees for their heating expenses, the opinions of the Harbin Municipal Government Heating Office will not affect these units' bonuses, evaluation of advanced and leadership to go abroad at all. If a female teacher in a certain district can't report the heat fee, she should go to the district government, the superior competent unit, but the district government has never solved it because she has no money.

4. Lawyers suggest three ways to solve the problem

Du Wenbo, a lawyer of Heilongjiang Haitian Qingcheng Law Firm, believes that government documents stipulate that women should not be discriminated against in the reimbursement of heat expenses, but in fact, many units stipulate that female employees can only be reimbursed for heat expenses under four circumstances: divorced, widowed, military married and older unmarried. Reimbursement of heat expenses belongs to the welfare treatment of employees, which can be legally classified into the category of labor law. For women who are not reimbursed by the unit, there are three ways to solve this problem: one is to negotiate with the unit, the other is to arbitrate through labor, and the third is to bring a lawsuit in court. "But this problem is a hot potato, and no one will really touch it."

5. It is the most fundamental solution to change "covert subsidy" into "overt subsidy".

So, when will the heat subsidy in Harbin be changed from covert subsidy to overt subsidy? At present, the heating costs of employees in institutions, enterprises and institutions in Harbin are paid by individuals to heating enterprises and then reimbursed by their units. Because this payment method is not only complicated and complicated, but also easy to form a "triangle account", and individual units do not reimburse female workers for heat costs, it often leads to some disputes between heating enterprises, heat users and heat user units. After the heating fee is paid, the subsidy will be paid into the wages, and the situation that some units are in arrears with their employees' heating fees will be improved, and the problem of heating enterprises' arrears in heating fees will also be alleviated, and the interests of heat users and heating enterprises will be effectively guaranteed.

according to the reporter's understanding, the Harbin municipal government has held several special meetings on heating several times recently, and studied, discussed and formulated the implementation plan of changing the "hidden subsidy" to "open subsidy" for heating costs. The specific contents will be announced to the public after the plan is passed.

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Changchun has a good prescription

The reporter learned from the heating management office of Changchun that before 26, there was a phenomenon of "heating divorce" in Changchun because of discrimination against women in the reimbursement of heating expenses, and it was once a social problem that many female employees could not reimburse heating expenses. Since the winter of 26, Jilin Province has comprehensively promoted the reform of the heating system in nine cities (states) in the province, and all the subsidies for workers' heating fees have been changed from "hidden subsidies" to "open subsidies". The subsidies for heating fees are directly paid to individual workers, regardless of gender, and the residents pay the heating fees to the heating units. This intractable social problem has only disappeared.