The special situation of "being laid off" is determined by the special national conditions of China's transition from a traditional planned economy to a market economy. Under the traditional system, there is a special interest relationship among the government, enterprises and employees, that is, the government and enterprises have a commitment to the lifelong employment and related protection of employees. Based on this, and considering the large number of these employees, the government and enterprises cannot and should not simply push employees to the market and let them lose their jobs to solve the problem of surplus employees in enterprises. Therefore, there will be "laid-off" who let employees leave their jobs while retaining labor relations.
Undoubtedly, the laid-off mode has played a great role in digesting the surplus staff of enterprises, realizing the transition of economic system, safeguarding the basic rights and interests of employees, and helping employees achieve re-employment. However, "laid-off", as a special way to solve the remaining problems in a specific historical period, is obviously transitional. Therefore, with the gradual establishment of the market economic system, especially the continuous improvement of the national unified unemployment relief system, it has become the necessity of market logic to realize the "merger" of laid-off workers and unemployed people.
Moreover, from the perspective of fairness and equality, under the background that the social and economic environment is becoming more and more market-oriented and the problem of employment and unemployment is not limited to employees in traditional enterprises, it is also inconsistent with the administrative quality of the government's universal fair service to give a certain unemployed group special policy treatment for a long time. Therefore, the popularization and socialization of unemployment relief is the general trend.
The "unemployment" of laid-off workers does not mean that the government's responsibility is easier, and the unemployment relief for employees is not guaranteed. In fact, bringing more de facto unemployed people into a unified unemployment relief system shows that the government has a greater responsibility; For workers, leaving the special laid-off security and moving towards the unemployment security with stronger security foundation and more complete system will make the security more reliable rather than more fragile.