去年年底韩国通过了新的劳工法案:允许企业在比过去简单得多的条件下解雇员工。而受该法案影响最大的,就是过去几乎是终生雇佣的大企业、大公司的白领雇员,当然还有普通蓝领员工。 法案通过后,上班族们抗议也没用,因为韩国政府已注意到,人数庞大、待遇特优的国企、私企及一些半官方机构,已成了韩国进一步提高经济竞争力的主要障碍。其实在许多发达国家,工作制度已比打破铁饭碗走得更远,欧美国家的企业和员工都已接受随时增减人手的模式,并由经济学家总结,称之为“劳动弹性时代到来”。 South Korea passed a new labor bill at the end of last year: allowing companies to dismiss employees under much simpler conditions than in the past. And most affected by the act is the large-scale employment of large enterprises in the past, the white-collar employees of large companies, of course, there are ordinary blue-collar workers. After the passage of the bill, office workers protest is useless because the South Korean government has noticed that the large number of state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and some semi-official agencies that have been given special treatment have become the major obstacle to South Korea’s further economic competitiveness. In fact, in many developed countries, the system of work has gone further than breaking the iron rice bowl. Both the enterprises and staff in the United States and Europe have accepted the model of changing manpower at any time and are summarized by economists as “the era of labor flexibility” .