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(1) To ensure the orderly implementation of employment work during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Education Bureau, Finance Bureau, Transportation Bureau, and Health Commission of each city (district) have issued a notice to implement the spirit of the "Opinions of the People's Government of Shaanxi Province on Resolutely Winning the War against COVID-19 and Promoting Steady and Healthy Economic Development" (No. 3, 2020) and the "Notice of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and Five Departments on Doing a Good Job in Employment Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (No. 2, 2020).
(2) Key Measures to Ensure Employment Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
(3) 1. Ensure the Employment of Key Enterprises: - Each level of public employment and talent service institution must designate a person to actively communicate with local development and reform, industry and information technology, and commerce departments to understand and grasp the enterprises' resumption of work time and labor demand, and provide enterprises with support in recruiting local talents, allocating redundant labor, organizing internships, and assisting in cross-regional recruitment. - For enterprises with a certain scale, coordinate with transportation departments to develop transportation plans, and for those with conditions, organize concentrated transportation to the destination.
(4) 2. Support Enterprises in COVID-19 Prevention and Control: - For enterprises that resumed production and delivery of COVID-19 prevention and control materials during the Spring Festival (by February 9, 2020), new employees who signed labor contracts (or employment agreements) will receive a one-time employment subsidy of up to 2000 yuan, with the required funds drawn from employment subsidies.
(5) 3. Do a Good Job in Returning to Work and Resuming Production Prevention and Control: - Each level of public employment and talent service institution must publish on their official website and Weibo the resumption time of enterprises and projects in their jurisdiction, and develop and publish prevention manuals for migrant workers, guiding laborers to do a good job in home isolation and returning to work. - Implement the responsibility of the local government and the main body of the enterprise, strictly implement the daily body temperature detection and health status report system for employees, and immediately send employees with fever, fatigue, or dry cough to designated hospitals for examination if abnormal symptoms are found. - Guide enterprises to do a good job in sanitation and epidemic prevention, detection equipment, and medicine configuration, and improve the production and living conditions of laborers.
(6) 4. Care for and Protect Laborers in Key Areas: - Develop Public Welfare Positions: - During the COVID-19 pandemic, support communities (towns) to develop temporary public welfare positions for epidemic prevention and control, prioritize hiring laborers with employment difficulties and rural surplus laborers in their jurisdiction, and mainly assist in monitoring, tracking, warning, prevention, and control of the epidemic, as well as employment services. - The number and subsidy standards of temporary public welfare positions will be determined by the Human Resources and Social Security Department at the city (district) level.
(7) 5. Prevent Employment Discrimination: - Maintain the legitimate rights and interests of laborers, and all types of human resources service institutions and employing units must not publish recruitment information excluding laborers from areas with severe COVID-19 outbreaks. - Employing units must not refuse to recruit laborers from areas with severe COVID-19 outbreaks. - For laborers who cannot return to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises must not terminate labor contracts or return labor dispatched workers.
(8) 6. Strengthen Labor and Employment Guidance: - Play the role of the three-party coordination mechanism of labor relations, guide enterprises to handle labor relations problems during the COVID-19 pandemic properly. - For enterprises that are facing production and operation difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adjust salaries, implement rotation, reduce working hours, and other measures to stabilize employment.
(9) 7. Do a Good Job in Providing Unemployment Benefits: - From January 1, 2020, for laborers who lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic and have paid social insurance premiums for more than a year but do not meet the conditions for receiving unemployment insurance benefits, they can receive a monthly unemployment allowance at the local standard until the end of the pandemic.
(10) 8. Support Small and Micro Enterprises in Stabilizing Employment: - Increase Support for Job Stabilization: - During the COVID-19 pandemic, for enterprises that do not lay off or lay off employees, the unemployment insurance premium refund rate will be increased from 50% of the actual payment in the previous year to 60%. - For enterprises that meet the conditions of temporary production and operation difficulties and have a chance to recover, the refund standard will be determined based on 6 months of local average monthly unemployment insurance benefits and the number of unemployment insurance participants at the end of the previous year. - For small and micro enterprises with 30 or fewer employees that have paid unemployment insurance premiums in accordance with the law and do not lay off or lay off employees at a rate not exceeding 20% of the total number of employees, they will be given a 3-month unemployment insurance premium refund. - For enterprises that have suffered losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, they will be given policy preferences.
(11) 9. Relax Payment of Social Insurance Premiums: - For enterprises that are facing temporary production and operation difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic and are unable to pay social insurance premiums in full, they can suspend payment of old-age insurance, unemployment insurance, and work injury insurance premiums for up to 6 months. - During the suspension period, the insured rights of participating employees will not be affected.
(12) 10. Strengthen Enterprise Employee Training: - Take advantage of the Action to Enhance Occupational Ability, guide enterprises, colleges, vocational schools (including technical schools), and social training institutions to provide free online training resources. - Encourage and support enterprises to use various online training platforms, adopt online live broadcasts, video recordings, and other online training methods, and conduct in-service training. - Enterprises that organize employees to participate in online training will be given full subsidies from the Occupational Skill Enhancement Special Account.
(13) 11. Unified Use of Industrial Enterprise Structural Adjustment Special Award Funding: - Used to support small and micro enterprises affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Shaanxi Province during the period of epidemic prevention and control (based on the time nodes specified by the local epidemic prevention and control command center). - Prioritize support for county-level and town-level entrepreneurship centers, with a special subsidy of 10,000 yuan per town-level entrepreneurship center and 20,000 yuan per county-level entrepreneurship center, and provide subsidies for registered small and micro enterprises or entrepreneurship individuals to reduce water and electricity fees, rent, provide human resources services, and provide legal advice.
(14) 12. Play the Role of Entrepreneurship Guarantee Loans: - For borrowers who have received personal entrepreneurship guarantee loans and have contracted COVID-19, they can apply to the lending bank to extend repayment, with the extension period not exceeding 1 year, and the financial department will continue to provide interest subsidies. - For individuals and small and micro enterprises that have lost their income sources due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they will be given priority support when applying for loans.
(15) 13. Innovate Public Employment Services: -