China News Service, August 7th. According to the website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 15 departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Development and Reform Commission have issued the "Opinions on Doing a Good Job in the Employment and Entrepreneurship of Migrant Workers" (below Referred to as "Opinions"). The "Opinions" pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to the combination of market employment and government promotion, stabilize the employment of permanent migrant workers in cities and towns, and ensure that the employment situation of migrant workers is generally stable and that migrant workers in difficulties receive timely assistance.
Data map: Migrant workers return to work by special train. Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Chao
The "Opinions" pointed out that the promotion of migrant workers' employment and entrepreneurship is related to increasing farmers' income and getting rich, it is related to the overall stability of employment, and it is related to winning the battle against poverty. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of market employment and government promotion, stabilize the employment of migrant workers in cities and towns, and ensure that the employment situation of migrant workers is generally stable and that migrant workers in difficulties receive timely assistance.
The "Opinions" put forward four aspects of policy measures. One is to broaden the employment channels outside. Fully implement the policy of assisting enterprises to stabilize jobs, helping foreign trade companies to alleviate their difficulties, and increase policy support for the accommodation, catering, wholesale and retail industries. Various types of infrastructure construction should give priority to projects with strong employability, vigorously develop life service industries and labor-intensive industries, cultivate new drivers of economic development, and expand new areas of employment for migrant workers. The flexible employment support policy treats urban residents and migrant workers equally, develops a gig or labor market according to local conditions, builds a platform for adjusting surplus employment shortages of enterprises, and supports migrant workers in new forms of employment such as live broadcast sales and online delivery to increase income.
The second is to promote local employment. Support the development of characteristic planting and breeding industries, agricultural and forestry product processing and logistics, rural leisure tourism and other industries, and drive employment as an important consideration for the creation of a modern agricultural and forestry industrial park. Strengthen the construction of small and medium-sized rural infrastructure, speed up post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, increase investment in work-for-work, increase the proportion of labor compensation funds to more than 15%, and attract more return to hometown migrant workers. Strengthen the construction of entrepreneurial service capabilities, organize the establishment of a team of entrepreneurial service experts and rural innovation and entrepreneurship mentors, implement entrepreneurial support policies, and apply for 50% of a one-time entrepreneurial subsidy for migrant workers who start a business for the first time and have been operating normally for more than 6 months .
The third is to strengthen equal employment services and rights protection. Unblock the channels for employment assistance, establish and improve a dynamically updated job reserve mechanism and a multi-party rapid response mechanism. Unemployed migrant workers can register for unemployment at their household registration, permanent residence, employment, and insured areas. Actively carry out training on behalf of workers, targeted job training, special training for urgently needed jobs, job conversion training and entrepreneurship training, and migrant workers can enjoy various subsidy policies for vocational training at the training place. Separate higher-level recruitment plans for migrant workers. Severely crack down on illegal behaviors such as malicious arrears of wages in accordance with the law, and provide legal aid services to migrant workers. Distribute various types of unemployment insurance benefits to unemployed migrant workers in a timely manner. For eligible migrant workers and other uninsured unemployed persons who are not included in the scope of subsistence allowances, a one-time temporary relief fund will be provided by the work site or permanent residence.
Fourth, give priority to ensuring stable employment of poor laborers. Give priority to organizing poor laborers to go out for work in an orderly manner, encourage enterprises to preferentially retain poor laborers, provide priority transfer opportunities for unemployed and poor laborers, and ensure that the scale of poor laborers going out for work this year is no less than last year. Through project construction, work-for-work relief, leading poverty alleviation enterprises and poverty alleviation workshops, we will provide more nearby employment opportunities, and coordinate and make good use of various rural public welfare jobs to support the employment of poor laborers who are difficult to find. Put 52 uncapped poor counties, “three districts and three states” and other deeply impoverished areas, large resettlement areas for poverty alleviation and relocation, and Hubei and other areas severely affected by the epidemic as the top priority, and increase labor cooperation and project construction. Tilt support for similar resources.
The "Opinions" require that local people's governments at all levels should attach great importance to the employment and entrepreneurship of migrant workers, make it a priority for stabilizing employment and ensuring the employment of residents, improve the public employment service system, increase the implementation of policies for migrant workers’ employment and entrepreneurship, and make overall plans for the Such funds will take the employment of migrant workers as an important factor in increasing the scale of urban construction land, and ensure that migrant workers have equal access to employment service policies.