Government expands employment insurance subscribers to about 7.33 million by 2025
The Korea Employers Federation (Gyeonggi Chong) said, “It is necessary to collect the opinions of the parties in a step-by-step manner,” regarding the government’s announcement of the’National Employment Insurance Roadmap’, which includes employment insurance for all working employees. 23 I put up a job position.
The National Employment Insurance Roadmap is a plan to gradually expand the application of employment insurance not only for wage workers, but also for specially hired (specially high), platform workers, self-employed, temporary and daily workers, etc., to enroll all employed in employment insurance by 2025.
“I agree with the basic purpose of the roadmap to strengthen the social safety net for the vulnerable in the wake of the Corona 19 crisis. However, in order to increase the sustainability of employment insurance, It is necessary to comprehensively review the intentions of the parties, the conditions of the employer who must share insurance premiums, and the impact on the labor market, and promote them step by step and elasticity.”
“Key matters such as employment insurance premium rate and premium sharing ratio, including the selection of occupations for special type workers who should be enrolled in employment insurance, must be determined by sufficiently reflecting the characteristics of special type workers and the opinions of the parties.” “Recently focusing on the delivery industry It is also necessary to take into account the fact that the increasing number of platform workers’ employment insurance also has several business owners, high short-term volatility in employment and turnover, and diverse work methods and business models.”
In addition, he said, “If the employment insurance system is designed to fit the business model and job characteristics, and the premium share is not properly calculated according to the dynamics between the employer and the employee, it will inevitably lead to management and employment insecurity.”
Lastly, “It is difficult to prepare for the all-round unemployment shock caused by changes in the industrial environment only with employment insurance,” he said. “A separate deduction system or private insurance that can be autonomously subscribed to by self-employed self-employed workers and those who are difficult to subscribe to employment insurance are activated. In order to be able to do so, it is also necessary to take active measures from the government.”
Earlier, on the morning of the 23rd, Hong Nam-ki, Deputy Prime Minister of Economy and Minister of Strategy and Finance, presided over the ’23rd Emergency Economy Central Countermeasure Headquarters Meeting and the 7th Korean New Deal Ministers’ Meeting’ at the Seoul Government Building on the morning of the 23rd. Deputy Prime Minister Hong said, “First of all, we will settle the employment insurance for artists, which is the starting stage, and then, in the second half of next year for special high school and platform industries, 14 occupations covered by industrial accident insurance, and in the first half of 2022, platform workers that are easy to identify business owners, and in the second half of 2022, other special notices “We will expand the application of employment insurance to the platform industry.”
This roadmap ▲Changes the criteria for enrollment for wage workers to income rather than working hours ▲Changes the criteria for enrollment in employment insurance for wage workers from current working hours (over 60 hours per month) to income ▲All jobs with a certain income or more subscribe to employment insurance Etc. Through the roadmap for employment insurance, the government plans to expand the number of employment insurance coverage to about 7.33 million by 2025.
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