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[Epidemic Prevention and Anti-epidemic Fund] The employment plan will be extended from the 25th to apply for details next Monday

2020-05-12T12:51:06.068Z


The 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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Written by: Huang Yongyu, Yuan Shu

2020-05-12 17:56

Last update date: 2020-05-12 20:43

The 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. With regard to MPF information, in order to avoid "manipulation", the government has decided to "freeze" on May 7 and will not consider making up for the information. Eligible persons can apply from May 25 to June 14, and it is expected to be issued within 3 to 4 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."

Penalty depends on the degree of violation

In terms of penalties, he said that the government will mainly look at two major aspects, the first is the degree of violations, and the second is the number of employees. He gave an example. For example, 100 people were invited in March, but there were only 20 people in June, a reduction of eight adults. This is a high degree of violation. The number is also a big factor. "5 people walked 1 person, which is 20% less. 100 people walked 20 people, which is also 20%." The situation is very different, but the details need to be announced next week.

As for the application for the employment insurance plan, the employer only needs to fill in the form online and authorize the MPF trustee to provide MPF contribution information to the government. In other words, the employer does not need to submit the employee MPF contribution information by itself. Shang also expressed his gratitude to the agent for implementing the plan in a voluntary manner.

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Recognize the plan to "package" the workforce over 65

The plan is to extend to the elderly who are over 65 years old and have MPF contributions. Some reporters questioned how some of the elderly would return to the workplace or fail to set up an MPF ​​account again. Luo Zhiguang admitted that he planned to "include the sun", but according to the current data, there are 60,000 people over 65 years old who provide MPF, and of the total 150,000 working people over 65 years old, 40,000 people get other anti-epidemic resistance Supported by the Epidemic Disease Fund, 10,000 people are employed by government contract workers, and most of the remainder are employers and professionals. I believe that only a few people have no support at all. He explained that if they were to be included, they would need to obtain their personal data for processing, which would slow down the entire program application.

The outside world questioned that the plan does not protect employers from "reduction of labor". In the "Frequently Asked Questions" information issued by the government, the plan mentions that the plan does not require that wages should not be reduced during the subsidy period, but the government expects employers to try not to reduce wages, but employers ’operating conditions vary. , And this epidemic has a great impact, it is necessary to retain flexibility for their business model.

Enquiry hotline will open tomorrow

Feng Chengshuyi , Director of the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office, said that from 9 am tomorrow (13th), hotline 1836122 and email enquiry@employmentsupport.hk, for employers and self-employed persons to check application qualifications and subsidy methods.

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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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