Illustrative image (Source: VNA)They include employees of 84,000 businesses and those with unemploymentinsurance premium payment period reserved.
Men said that due to COVID-19, HCM City has the numberhighest of unemployed labourers and labourers on unpaid leave in the country.
Along with reducing employees’ unemployment insurancepremium from 1 percent of their wage funds to zero percent, the city ispromptly implementing a 1.9 trillion VND (83.56 million USD) package to support pandemic-hit enterprises, he said.
On October 1, the Government issued Decision No. 28/QD-TTg providingregulations on the implementation of support policies for employees and employersimpacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, using the unemployment insurance fund.
Accordingly, different levels of allowances from 1.8 million VND (79 USD) to3.3 million VND (144.8 USD) will be given to each labourer depending on thetime they has paid unemployment premiums.
On September 30, the National Assembly also issued a resolution on theprovision of allowances to employees and employers affected by COVID-19 usingthe unemployment insurance fund.
Under the resolution, about 30 trillion VND (1.31 billion USD) from the fundwill be used to support labourers who are covered by unemployment insurance asof September 30, 2021, excluding employees in State agencies, socio-politicalorganisations, people’s armed forces and public non-business agencies who arepaid by the State budget.
Labourers who have stopped paying unemployment insurance due to the terminationof their labour contracts or working contracts between January 1, 2020 andSeptember 30, 2021, and have unemployment insurance premium payment periodreserved in accordance with the employment law, are also eligible for thesupport, excluding retirees who receive monthly pensions. The support will bedelivered from October 1 and scheduled to complete on December 31 at thelatest.
The resolution clarifies that employers, excepting State agencies,socio-political organisations, people’s armed forces and public non-businessagencies funded by State budget, who are joining unemploymentinsurance before October 1, 2021, will have their premiums reduced from 1percent of their wage funds to zero percent for a duration of 12 months fromOctober 1./.
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