In the first three months, there were 2.97 million new jobs in cities and towns, and employment continued to remain stable overall——
To ensure employment, policy support is not slack (Rui Finance)
Continue to implement the unemployment insurance stabilization and return policy, promote the liberalization of household registration restrictions for flexible employees to participate in social security at the place of employment, and promote the implementation of entrepreneurial guaranteed loans and interest discounts... The State Council executive meeting held a few days ago proposed a number of policy measures around employment.
Relevant people pointed out that the introduction and implementation of these measures will further maintain policy support for market entities, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and employment for key groups, create a good environment for flexible employment, and provide strong support for securing employment.
Give companies a tangible discount
In the whole year, a total of 1.7 trillion yuan was "reduced, exempted, and reduced" in social insurance premiums, and 10.42 billion yuan was issued to 6.08 million enterprises for unemployment insurance and job stabilization...Last year, the state launched a series of extraordinary and phased measures to reduce burdens, stabilize jobs, and expand employment. Obvious results have been achieved in securing employment.
How is the employment situation this year?
Will policy support continue?
The market is highly concerned.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to March, 2.97 million new jobs were created in urban areas, fulfilling 27% of the annual target.
The employment situation is generally stable, but the employment of key groups still faces certain pressure.
Among them, the total number of college graduates this year reached 9.09 million, a record high. With the coming of the graduation season in June, there is still greater pressure for young people to find employment.
The executive meeting of the State Council made it clear that this year's employment pressure is still high, we must continue to prioritize employment, and maintain policy support for market entities, especially small, medium and micro enterprises, and key groups in employment.
The meeting decided to extend the period of part of the policy of reducing burdens, stabilizing jobs and expanding employment until the end of this year.
"The series of measures proposed this time have proved to be more effective in securing employment, and the social response has been very good. For example, according to the survey, the unemployment insurance stabilization and return policy is particularly popular among many enterprises, and relevant enterprises also hope to do so. The good policy can be continued. The meeting clarified that in areas where the unemployment insurance fund balance provision period of the previous year was more than one year, this year, eligible large enterprises will be able to refund up to 30% of the unemployment insurance premiums paid in the previous year. , Small, medium and micro enterprises will return no more than 60%. This will continue to bring tangible benefits to enterprises, especially those small, medium and micro enterprises that carry a large number of jobs, and their operating costs will therefore be significantly reduced." China Labor and Social Security Zhang Libin, a researcher at the Academy of Sciences, told our reporter.
Further support flexible employment
Flexible employment is an important channel for increasing the income of the people. At present, there are 200 million flexible employees in the country, such as courier brothers, takeaway riders, and online ride-hailing drivers.
The executive meeting of the State Council determined measures to further support flexible employment.
Zhang Libin believes that under the background that the external environment is still complicated and severe and employment pressure is still high, flexible employment can give full play to its advantages, further expand employment space, hedge against external influences, and ease employment pressure.
"Therefore, it is necessary to further unblock flexible employment channels and protect the basic rights and interests of flexible employees."
In response to the social security issues of flexible employment, the meeting proposed to study and formulate measures for flexible employment to participate in the basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents.
Promote the liberalization of household registration restrictions for flexible employees to participate in social security in the place of employment.
“At present, in some places, flexible employees are unable to participate in social insurance such as pension and medical care on the spot, but can only participate in personal household registration, which affects some people to participate in social insurance. Aiming at the'blocking point' and the pain point, the meeting clarified The policy measures are very timely and necessary, which will help improve the level of protection of the rights and interests of flexible employees." Zhang Libin said, in addition, the problem of occupational injury protection plagues many flexible employees. This meeting proposed to launch a pilot program of occupational injury protection for flexible employees on the platform. , Will promote the rational definition of platform corporate responsibilities, explore mechanisms for employers to purchase commercial insurance, insurance companies to transfer profits appropriately, and government to increase support, so as to create a good environment for flexible employment.
Put good policies in place
With strong policies, how do you look at the employment situation?
Zhang Libin believes that as my country's economy continues to recover steadily, employment will continue to remain stable overall.
However, we must also see that there are still many uncertainties and instabilities, and the employment situation is still more complicated. At the same time, college graduates are about to enter the market intensively, and there are still many challenges in securing employment.
"In the face of risks and challenges, it is especially necessary to implement the good policies that have been introduced."
Recently, many places have begun to take action.
Focusing on flexible employees, the "Guangdong Province's Measures for Flexible Employees to Participate in the Basic Pension Insurance for Enterprise Employees" has been implemented a few days ago. The measures have removed restrictions on the number of years of participation in enterprise pension insurance for flexible employees with household registrations from other provinces and cross-city mobility in the province. Conditions, it is convenient for the flexible employment of the remote household registration to participate in the insurance.
Focusing on the employment of college graduates, Beijing has launched special actions.
For example, in terms of skills certificates, it is clear that fresh college graduates can participate in employment skills training for free, and qualified graduates can also participate in entrepreneurship training for free.
From May to August this year, Beijing designated training institutions can undertake 100 classes of 3,000 graduates to participate in skills training, and 30 classes of nearly 1,000 graduates to participate in entrepreneurship training.
The Ministry of Education recently introduced that the "2021 College Graduate Employment Promotion Week" series of activities will be carried out nationwide from May 17 to 23, which mainly include job fairs, school-enterprise supply and demand matchmaking, and employment education activities.
During the period, all regions will simultaneously hold regional, industry, and alliance-based large-scale special recruitment fairs, and colleges and universities plan to hold online and offline campus recruitment fairs every day.
Wang Hui, director of the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education, said that in the next step, the Ministry of Education will guide universities in various regions to increase their work and do everything possible to promote full and higher-quality employment for college graduates.
Reporter: Qiu Haifeng