Opinions of Beijing Municipal People’s Government on Doing a Good Job in Promoting Employment at Present and in the Future

Jing Zheng Fa [2018] No.30

District People’s governments, municipal government commissions, offices and bureaus, and municipal institutions:

  In order to thoroughly implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era and the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, fully implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on stabilizing employment, take multiple measures simultaneously and comprehensively, and ensure the smooth completion of the employment objectives and tasks in this city and the sustained and stable employment situation in the current and future period, according to the spirit of "Several Opinions of the State Council on Doing a Good Job in Promoting Employment in the Current and Future Period" (Guo Fa [2018] No.39), combined with the actual situation, the following implementation opinions are put forward:

  First, support the stable development of enterprises

  (1) Increase the support for stabilizing posts. Since January 1, 2019, 50% of the unemployment insurance premium actually paid in the previous year can be returned to the insured enterprises that have not laid off employees or laid off fewer employees. From January 1 to December 31, 2019, for the insured enterprises that face temporary production and operation difficulties and are expected to recover, and insist on not laying off employees or reducing layoffs, the return standard can be determined according to the monthly per capita unemployment insurance premium and the number of insured employees in the previous year of this city for six months.

  (2) Continuously optimize financial services. Improve the policy financing guarantee system, increase the scale of financing guarantee for small and micro enterprises, guide more financial resources to support entrepreneurial employment, and further alleviate the problem of financing difficulties for small and micro enterprises. Banks and other institutions that have made outstanding achievements in the work of business guarantee loans may be rewarded according to 1% of the newly issued business guarantee loans in that year.

  (3) Guiding and stabilizing labor relations. Strengthen the supervision and management of enterprises’ implementation of the labor contract system and the collective contract system, encourage enterprises to carry out collective consultations with employees, urge enterprises to protect the legitimate rights and interests of employees according to law, further build harmonious labor relations and stabilize employment.

  Second, encourage entrepreneurship to drive employment

  (four) increase the support for the discount of business guarantee loans. Small and micro enterprises registered and operated in this city, when the number of newly recruited people who meet the application conditions for business start-up guarantee loans reached 25% of the existing employees (15% for enterprises with more than 100 employees) and signed labor contracts with them for more than one year, can apply for business start-up guarantee loans with a maximum of 3 million yuan according to the standards of the number of recruited people and the amount of each person not exceeding 150,000 yuan, and the discount funds will be borne by the finance. Increase the maximum amount of personal small convenient loans from 100,000 yuan to 150,000 yuan.

  (5) Strengthen the construction of entrepreneurial carriers. Accelerate the construction of business incubation carriers for key groups and provide low-cost venue support, guidance services and policy support for entrepreneurs; According to the number of entities, the incubation effect and the employment effect, the business incubation base will be rewarded. Support areas with stable employment pressure to provide free business venues for unemployed people to start their own businesses. Strengthen the construction of the "Growth Enterprise Market for College Students" in this city’s regional equity market, and provide professional services such as project incubation, capital docking, equity custody, training and guidance for entrepreneurial enterprises.

  Third, carry out skills training to improve the quality of employment

  (six) support enterprises in difficulty to carry out skills training for employees. From January 1 to December 31, 2019, difficult enterprises can use the education funds of enterprise employees to carry out on-the-job training for employees by themselves or by entrusting institutions with corresponding training qualifications in this city. Employees who have obtained corresponding vocational qualification certificates or vocational skill grade certificates after training shall be subsidized by their enterprises according to 50% of the subsidy standard for technical skill upgrading; To carry out non-level skills training and each person’s training time is not less than 20 class hours, and give enterprise subsidies according to the standard of 500 yuan per person.

  (seven) to encourage workers to improve their professional skills. From January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020, the application conditions for technical skills upgrading subsidies in this city were relaxed from employees of enterprises who participated in unemployment insurance for more than 3 years to those who participated in insurance for more than 1 year; Persons with employment difficulties in urban and rural areas in this city who have not received unemployment insurance benefits can enjoy cost of living allowance, which is not less than that in 35 yuan, per person per day during the training period, and cost of living allowance policy only enjoys it once per person per year.

  (eight) to mobilize social forces to participate in vocational training. Support all kinds of vocational colleges (including technical colleges), ordinary colleges and universities, vocational training institutions and qualified enterprises to undertake vocational skills training or entrepreneurship training for unemployed people and rural migrant workers, and give vocational training subsidies according to regulations. The subsidy standard is determined according to the training cost, training duration, market demand and obtaining relevant certificates. Timely study, adjust and enrich the catalogue of vocational training subsidies, and expand the benefits of policies.

  Fourth, accurate policy to help employment

  (nine) to expand the scope of employment trainee subsidies. From January 1, 2019, the scope of employment trainee subsidies will be expanded from unemployed college graduates who have left school to registered unemployed people aged 16-24 and rural laborers who have transferred employment registration; Organize them to participate in employment internships for no more than 12 months, give employment internship subsidies according to regulations, and appropriately raise the subsidy standards.

  (ten) to improve the employer’s post subsidy standards. Employers will be encouraged to recruit people with employment difficulties in urban and rural areas, retired soldiers and laid-off workers from enterprises, and the post subsidy standard will be raised from 5,000 yuan per person per year to 8,000 yuan per person per year.

  (eleven) to promote the employment of rural labor. Vigorously develop industrial projects with quick results and high returns to help rural laborers find jobs nearby. Encourage outstanding young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses and promote farmers’ employment. Broaden the channels for rural labor to transfer employment, support rural labor who are willing to go out for employment in urban public service posts, and implement relevant policies such as post subsidies and social insurance subsidies. Give full play to the role of rural public welfare posts and enhance the ability to provide care for rural people with employment difficulties.

  V. Optimizing services to boost employment

  (twelve) the implementation of permanent service. Unemployed people in this city and rural laborers who require the transfer of employment can apply for unemployment registration, transfer of employment registration and other businesses in the social security offices in the streets (towns) of their permanent residence, enjoy employment and entrepreneurship services nearby, and apply for employment and entrepreneurship support policies at the municipal level and in the districts where their permanent residence is located. People with employment difficulties in urban and rural areas can receive employment assistance in their permanent residence.

  (13) Improve service quality. Actively use the "internet plus" model, build a network service platform for employment and entrepreneurship, promote departmental information sharing, streamline work links, and reduce application materials, so that "information runs more and people run less errands". Actively carry out policy propaganda, announce the policy list, bidding process, subsidy standard, service organization and contact information, supervise the complaint telephone number to the society, go deep into enterprises to preach policies, understand difficulties, solve problems, do a good job of helping, and promote the implementation of various employment policies and services.

  (fourteen) to ensure the basic livelihood of the people in need. We will fully implement the unemployment insurance system and steadily raise the level of unemployment insurance benefits. A temporary living allowance of 3,000 yuan will be given to registered unemployed people who have difficulties in life and do not meet the conditions for receiving unemployment insurance benefits. We will integrate urban subsistence allowances, rural subsistence allowances, and low-income family identification systems, expand the scope of assistance, lower the threshold for assistance, and timely include families that meet the minimum living guarantee conditions into the minimum living guarantee scope. Improve the city’s temporary assistance system, give temporary assistance to qualified personnel, and help people in need to get out of trouble.

  Sixth, improve the safeguard mechanism

  (15) Strengthen organizational leadership. Give full play to the role of the municipal social security and employment work leading group, improve the working mechanism, and make overall plans for the analysis, policy formulation, guidance and inspection of the city’s employment situation. The relevant municipal departments and district governments should earnestly assume the main responsibility of promoting employment, strengthen communication and close cooperation, and do their best to promote employment.

  (sixteen) to strengthen publicity and guidance. Guide enterprises to stabilize employees’ employment through transformation, training and job transfer, and support "double innovation"; Guide workers to establish a correct concept of employment, actively improve their employment skills, and realize employment and entrepreneurship through their own efforts. It is necessary to mobilize the forces of all sectors of society to form a joint force to promote employment.

  (seventeen) optimize the financial security. Comprehensively sort out the existing capital projects that guarantee basic living, promote employment and stabilize employment, and on the basis of maintaining policy continuity and stability, merge and simplify the capital projects and use methods to improve the efficiency of capital use. Strictly implement the real-name management of employment assistance targets and effectively ensure the safe operation of funds.

the people’s government of beijing city

December 20, 2018