China News Service April 21, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Sciences held a press conference for the first quarter of 2020 to introduce the progress of human resources and social security work in the first quarter. Zhang Ying, director of the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs, revealed at the meeting that in the first quarter, the accumulated employment subsidy funds amounted to nearly 10 billion yuan, supporting enterprises to absorb employment, workers ’independent entrepreneurship and flexible employment.
Zhang Ying said that from January to March this year, 2.29 million people were employed in cities and towns across the country, and the unemployment rate in urban surveys in March was 5.9%. The employment situation is more severe than in previous years. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with relevant parties, has taken a series of measures to actively respond.
One is to expand channels. Comprehensively promote the resumption of production and production, accelerate the recovery and stable employment. Established a dispatch guarantee mechanism for key enterprises ’employment and a service guarantee mechanism for migrant workers’ return to work, helping key enterprises to solve the problem of recruiting nearly 500,000 workers, and “point-to-point” delivery of nearly 5.9 million migrant workers. The support for large entrepreneurial secured loans, entrepreneurial venues and platform employment drives new business development and flexible employment. Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare also noticed that some major water conservancy projects in the country have clearly defined the goal of promoting employment, and many central enterprises have expanded the recruitment scale.
The second is to stabilize positions. A series of "compensation-free reimbursement" series of aid policies for stabilizing jobs and expanding employment were launched. As of the end of March, a total of 232.9 billion yuan in social security expenses were reduced or exempted for enterprises. As of April 19, unemployment insurance has returned 38.8 billion yuan to stabilize jobs, benefiting 3.02 million businesses. In the first quarter, accumulatively spent nearly 10 billion yuan in employment subsidies to support enterprises to absorb employment, workers ’self-employment and flexible employment
The third is to protect the focus. College graduates have introduced subsidy policies that encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to absorb employment, and expand the scale of recruitment of state-owned enterprises and institutions, the scale of recruitment of grassroots projects, the scale of recruitment into the military, and the scale of employment trainees. Develop scientific research assistant positions to enrich the ranks of teachers and medical staff at the grass-roots level, while encouraging graduates to work and start businesses around community service needs. Strengthen information docking, transportation docking, and health testing docking for migrant workers, and promote orderly transfer of employment. At the same time, in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture, it will make arrangements for the local employment of migrant workers, guide the return to agriculture, guide the absorption of projects, guide the development of innovative formats, and guide the support of entrepreneurship. Make every effort to expand employment channels at your doorstep.
Fourth, excellent service. This epidemic has imposed great restrictions on offline services, but also forced the development of online services. It has launched the online spring breeze operation and online employment assistance activities, especially in mid-March, launched the "hundreds of millions of online recruitment special action" to create a recruitment cloud platform.
Five is the bottom line. Online unemployment registration has been fully opened, online unemployment insurance applications have been opened, and one-stop employment management and employment services are provided for the unemployed for free. At the same time, various localities have successively developed a number of temporary public welfare positions to implement bottom-up placement for people with employment difficulties.