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Written by: Huang Yongyu, Yuan Shu
2020-05-12 17:56
Last update date: 2020-05-12 19:06The new coronary pneumonia epidemic raged. The government passed the second wave of anti-epidemic funds, including the "employment protection" plan that exceeded 80 billion yuan, to provide half of the wage subsidies to enterprises, based on the monthly salary of 18,000 yuan per employee. The maximum subsidy amount is RMB 9,000 per month for half a year. Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue further announced the details of the plan before attending the executive meeting this morning (12th), including the opening of applications on May 25. Employers can receive funding as soon as June.
Luo Zhiguang pointed out that the details will be explained next Monday.
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The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Luo Zhiguang, explained that after hearing doubts about eligibility, he stressed that as long as employees have MPF or occupational retirement plans and the relevant accounts are opened before March 31 this year, they can apply. Under the MPF scheme and occupational retirement plan, it covers 270,000 employers and 1.77 million employees, and about 215,000 self-employed people benefit.
For self-employed people, they had to have an MPF account and had contributions before they could apply for a subsidy of $ 7,500. However, he pointed out that according to industry reports, self-employed people may actually have an MPF account, but for many reasons, there are If there is no contribution for a period of time, you may not be eligible to apply. Luo said that after the improvement, as long as an MPF account has been opened on or before March 31 of this year, "there are no contributions in the past 15 months." Even if there is not necessarily a contribution, as long as the account is still at the time of application Without cancellation, you can apply for a one-off allowance of 7,500 yuan.
He said that the six-month salary subsidy will be paid in two installments, the first installment pays the salary from June to August; the second installment pays the salary from September to November. Employers who apply must promise that no layoffs will be made during the subsidy period, and all government wage subsidies will be used for employee wages. If there is a violation, the government will get back subsidies and other penalties, but the details will be announced next week. Regarding the application arrangements for the second phase, the meeting will be announced later. He emphasized that this is a new plan, so the details will be finalized with reference to the implementation of the first phase.
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Luo Zhiguang pointed out that employers can choose to apply for the subsidy amount in one of the designated months from December 2019 to March this year, emphasizing that it is based on months rather than days.
In terms of MPF information, in order to avoid "hands-on", the government It has been decided to "fix the frame" on May 7, and the employer cannot submit additional information. Eligible persons can apply from May 25 to June 14 and can distribute it within three to four weeks. He emphasized that the purpose of the plan is to secure employment, so the number of people paid in June to August cannot be less than the number of people hired in March. "If it is unpaid in March, it will be paid in June."
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Chief Executive Lin Zhengyue said this morning that after understanding the industry's opinions, the plan will be improved in various ways, including covering older employees over 65 years of age who do not need to provide MPF. As long as they still have an MPF account, the employers of these people can It is expected that about 60,000 beneficiaries will apply for subsidies. In addition, in the construction and catering industries of the two industries that were originally eliminated, their "general employees" will be re-incorporated into the plan, such as engineers, food factory chefs, etc., and the number of people expected is about 12,000.
As for self-employed persons, as long as an MPF account has been opened on or before March 31 of this year, even if no contribution is necessary, as long as the account has not been cancelled at the time of application, you can apply for an allowance of $ 7,500. It is expected that 215,000 people will receive benefit. At the same time, the government pointed out earlier that employers can choose to apply for the amount of subsidies from January to March this year, one of the designated months. Lin Zheng said today that considering the tourism industry's reaction, the market has already started to be poor in January, so the government decided to fine-tune the plan. Employers can choose to apply for the subsidy amount in one of the designated months from December 2019 to March this year.
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