Political situation
Written by: Peng Zhuowei
2021-02-23 18:23
Last update date: 2021-02-23 18:23
The government will announce a new "Budget" tomorrow (24th). The Vocational Training and Employment Promotion Committee of the Federation of Trade Unions stated that the government has been reluctant to introduce emergency unemployment assistance, so that there are only "See the Plan" and the "Employment Plan for the Middle-aged and Senior Citizens", etc., can directly support unemployed workers during the epidemic. Therefore, the Federation of Trade Unions requested the government to increase the retraining allowance to 9,000 yuan, improve the current plan and create more temporary jobs as soon as possible to directly help. Unemployed people in need.
The Federation of Trade Unions requires the government to increase the retraining allowance to $9,000, improve the current plan and create more temporary jobs as soon as possible, so as to directly help the unemployed in need.
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Chen Dengyuan, director of the Vocational Training and Employment Committee of the Federation of Trade Unions, said that among the 240,000 unemployed troops last quarter, some of them would choose to enroll in the "Special, Love for Value-added" program to receive subsidies and self-improvement.
According to statistics from the Employees Retraining Board as of November 2020, the number of applications submitted has increased from more than 30,000 in the first phase of the plan to more than 70,000 in the second phase. In addition, the number of unemployed in the latest quarter exceeds 250,000. It becomes an important "lifesaver" for unemployed workers.
Chen Dengyuan asked for an increase in the monthly ceiling of the retraining allowance to 9,000 yuan. He also hopes that the government will allocate funds to improve the deficiencies of the plan, including: abolishing the application limit for waiting between two full-time courses and increasing the limit to four One; two: cancel the enrollment limit for part-time/non-employment linked courses; three: full-time courses should be enriched and lengthened; four: under the epidemic situation, administrative and approval procedures should be simplified, and half of them will be issued immediately after the course is completed Training allowance; 5: relax the qualifications of instructors, and for courses that require practicality, people with practical experience can be hired as instructors; 6: uniform allowances should be set for permanent courses, and the degree restrictions on courses should be relaxed.
Liang Ziying, deputy director of the Vocational Training and Employment Committee of the Federation of Trade Unions, pointed out that the unemployed most want to have a job, so the government is required to allocate funds to government departments to open up more part-time or full-time temporary positions. The recommended vacancies include: (1) Allocate places to Non-annual benefit organizations are used for community service purposes; (2) Increase the number of teaching assistants; (3) Clean public streets and Xiaoye Park; (4) Building cleaning and pipe inspection work, such as "Sanwu Building" and other old residential buildings (5) Government ambassador for easy travel registration and scanning code; (6) Temporary staff for vaccination or mandatory testing.
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