Caring for the community

The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the lives of employees in need. The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee has recently studied the issue of living arrangements for employees in need. In accordance with the deployment of the Party Central Committee, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, various measures were taken across Henan Province to ensure the production and living arrangements of socially disadvantaged groups.

Report: Reporter: Xie Dengke

Editor: Mu Xiaoli Yang Jing

Production: Wang Haixia

Source: Xinhuanet Henan Channel

80,000 party members and cadres in Henan are "hand in hand" with employees in need

Since this year, party committees and governments at all levels in Henan Province have carried out extensive assistance activities, with nearly 80,000 party members in the province Cadres and needy employees "hand in hand", *** donated 16.3 million yuan, arranged for 41,769 needy employees and 9,146 of their children, and exempted them from various medical expenses of 2.073 million yuan, initially forming a concerted effort to provide assistance in the province A new situation for employees in need.

At the beginning of the year, Henan Province issued the "Implementation Plan for Activities to Help Employees in Need in the Province," requiring all parts of the province to establish and improve long-term mechanisms for relevant government functional departments to assist employees in need. The labor and social security departments provide several skill trainings and a certain number of jobs for laid-off employees with difficulties every year; the health department establishes designated hospitals for needy employees to ensure basic medical care for needy employees; the education department ensures that children of needy employees complete compulsory education. drop out of school, and provide appropriate financial support to the children of employees with difficulties who are admitted to national colleges and universities through unified recruitment. Party committees at all levels across the province attach great importance to this, departments perform their duties, trade unions actively organize, and people from all walks of life participate. Kaifeng City is the first city in Henan Province to carry out assistance activities. They have implemented a multi-level and all-round "help and relieve poverty" project across the city. Tens of thousands of party members and cadres from 242 municipal and district government agencies and 242 neighborhood committees We formed pairs and used the neighborhood committee as the contact point to establish a helping relationship with 23,627 laid-off workers in the jurisdiction to help them get out of trouble.

Henan: 300,000 laid-off workers will be employed in the community service industry

Workers from Jiaozuo Agricultural Machinery Bureau went to rural areas to provide technical guidance

The reporter learned from the Henan Provincial Planning Commission that, The community service industry in Henan Province will grow at a rate higher than GDP in the next three years. It is expected that more than 700,000 jobs will be added, including 150,000 public welfare positions, and more than 300,000 laid-off workers can be re-employed, and rural residents can be resettled. 300,000 people were transferred to non-government status.

According to reports, the community service industry has outstanding characteristics such as low employment threshold, wide and multi-level service areas, diversification, and large-capacity employment. By the end of 2001, Henan Province's urban community services had arranged for 8,008 laid-off workers, and nearly half of the community employees were laid-off and unemployed people. Accelerating the development of the community service industry not only provides various forms of convenient services to urban residents across the province, improves the quality of life of residents, but also continuously absorbs a large number of labor force employment.

In the next three years, Henan Province will focus on the development of the following community employment areas based on the guiding ideology of "government guidance, market operation, enterprise management, and industrial development": community employment service industry, including community employment Training, job introduction, employment assistance, job development and labor market construction using information technology; community convenience and benefit services, including housekeeping, property management, elderly care, childcare, distribution, home care, maintenance and other industries; community culture Industry, including libraries, cultural centers, community culture, public welfare culture in the field of spiritual civilization construction and public participation, healthy and progressive commercial cultural projects; community medical and health care industry, encouraging the development of a variety of medical services and massage, fitness and health care that are convenient for patients services and encourage national fitness and sports competitions.

Zhumadian implements small subsidized loans to help employees in need re-employment

Zhumadian City, Henan Province comprehensively uses information guidance, technical training and financial support and other measures to establish the macro management and financial departments of the Federation of Trade Unions The re-employment assistance mechanism for laid-off workers is coordinated and implemented by county and district trade unions to find positions suitable for re-employment of laid-off workers in a planned and organized manner, and introduces credit funds through the hierarchical investment of small interest discount funds to help laid-off workers achieve re-employment.

In the three months since the implementation of this measure, the city has subsidized loan interest of 536,000 yuan for employees in need, helping more than 2,000 laid-off workers to successfully achieve re-employment.

Workers at Zhongzhou Aluminum Plant are producing

On September 16 this year, Zhumadian City issued the "Implementation Measures for Small Discounted Loans for the Reemployment of Difficult Employees", adopting the method of small discounted loans , to help laid-off employees with difficulties, mainly targeting women over 40 years old and men over 50 years old, to start their own businesses and save themselves. Interest discount funds are raised and collected through the "four points" of municipal and county (district) federations of trade unions investing some funds, local financial matching, funding from enterprises and institutions, and pledges from all walks of life. For those engaged in self-employed catering stalls, the subsidized loan is 1,000-2,000 yuan; for those engaged in self-employed repairs and small-scale processing, the subsidized loan is 2,000-3,000 yuan; for those engaged in individual industrial and commercial store economic entities, the subsidized loan is 5,000-30,000 yuan. The trade union department strictly controls the candidates and projects for assistance, selects needy employees with certain technical capabilities and entrepreneurial aspirations to invest interest discount funds, and strengthens guidance and follow-up services to ensure that each household is helped and enriched, and strives to ensure that interest subsidies do not provide relief. .

Since the implementation of small discount loan assistance measures, Zhumadian City has successfully solved the problem of startup capital for laid-off employees who have difficulty in starting businesses. At the same time, it has used trade union employee schools at all levels to organize home appliance repair, cooking, breeding, and beauty salons free of charge. 176 practical skills training classes (times) were held, and 8,578 employees in need were trained to solve the technical problems of "secondary entrepreneurship" for employees in need under the form of subsidized loan assistance, and to guide laid-off employees in difficulty to engage in the tertiary industry and develop the private sector. economy. At present, the city's financial department has issued 7.053 million yuan in subsidized loans to laid-off workers in difficulty, and laid-off workers have newly joined 1,907 "Five Small" projects such as small processing, small breeding, small stores, small repairs, and small operations.

Zhengzhou implements asset mortgage to protect employees' "livelihood money"

The construction site of Zhengzhou Electric Aluminum Plant

Since this year, Zhengzhou City has adopted asset mortgage to pay debts owed Enterprises that have paid pension insurance premiums are clearing up their arrears, and the pension insurance premiums jointly managed by the Municipal Labor Insurance Fund are receiving millions of yuan every month. At present, 14 arrears companies in Zhengzhou City have gone through asset mortgage procedures and recovered more than 50 million yuan in arrears. The problem of insurance premium arrears has seriously plagued Zhengzhou City’s social security work. The city’s highest arrears in social insurance premiums exceeded 300 million yuan, and the longest period of arrears was 80 months. In order to protect the safety of social insurance funds and ensure the "living money" of employees, the Zhengzhou Municipal Government proposed to implement asset mortgages for enterprises with long-term arrears, and the government established a social insurance asset management center to be responsible for managing asset mortgages. For those who still cannot repay the arrears upon expiration of the mortgage period, the social insurance asset management center will auction the land and real estate mortgaged by the enterprise, and the proceeds will be used to pay back the pension insurance premiums for the employees. In June this year, the Zhengzhou Municipal Government officially issued the "Notice on Social Security Asset Mortgage Management and Other Related Issues", which clarified the scope and objects of social insurance asset mortgage. The implementation of asset mortgage to protect employees' "pension money" is generally welcomed by enterprises and employees. A person in charge of Zhengzhou Wool Textile Factory, which has applied for asset mortgage, said that the implementation of asset mortgage can not only stabilize the mood of employees and solve their worries, but also force enterprises to engage in asset development and seek the best allocation of resources. Zhengzhou Wool Textile Factory owed 5.48 million yuan in employee pension insurance premiums by the end of last year. The company successively took out two pieces of land as asset mortgages. It has repaid 1.55 million yuan and recovered the first piece of mortgaged land.

Relevant personnel from the Zhengzhou Economic and Trade Commission said that the use of asset mortgage to pay off pension insurance premiums ensures the payment of social insurance arrears and directly protects the interests of employees. At the same time, it provides benefits to the production of enterprises. Operations have brought new pressures. Enterprises that have lost their "last line of defense" such as land and real estate will try their best to change their business philosophy and activate their enterprises through various methods such as capital operations.

Zhengzhou has built a "care mechanism" for needy groups

Zhengzhou has gradually improved its social security system in recent years, vigorously advocated a culture of social assistance, and built a comprehensive and comprehensive system for needy employee groups. A long-lasting "care mechanism".

Jiaozuo City Talent Recruitment Conference Zhengzhou City continues to improve the social security system and strives to build a "government care mechanism." In recent years, Zhengzhou City has repeatedly raised the minimum living security standard for employees in need based on the growth of the government's financial resources. It has now reached 180 yuan per person per month, an increase of 50% from the initial stage of formulation. Zhengzhou also took the lead in the province to launch a low-rent housing system, gradually solving the housing difficulties of people with housing less than 4 square meters. Starting this year, Zhengzhou City has implemented an employment plan for 50,000 people a year. Laid-off workers, unemployed people and other disadvantaged groups can find employment within a week as long as they are not picky. Zhengzhou City has also recently issued special policies for the medical treatment and schooling of children of "minimum living allowance" personnel. If "minimum living allowance" personnel go to designated hospitals, they can reduce medical expenses by 10% to 50%; Tuition, miscellaneous fees and book fees are exempted, and the government will provide a one-time subsidy of 5,000 yuan if you are admitted to university. Zhengzhou City focuses on mobilizing social forces, advocating and forming a "social care mechanism." In recent years, the Zhengzhou Warmth Sending Project Fund has organized visits to 120,000 employees in need and distributed more than 20 million yuan in funds. The career development center established by the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions has found jobs for more than 20,000 laid-off workers and provided free vocational training for nearly 40,000 people. In October this year, Zhengzhou city leaders took the lead, and various agencies, enterprises, institutions, and private owners rushed to donate funds to establish a needy employee assistance fund for poor employees. It has so far received donations from 83 party and government agencies, enterprises, and institutions. 125. More than 70,000 yuan. In accordance with the provisions of the "Measures for the Management of Assistance Funds", for laid-off workers and unemployed persons in the city who enjoy the minimum living security but still have special difficulties in family life, the "Assistance Fund" will provide living assistance and skills training. For those who are impoverished due to serious illness or other reasons, assistance of up to 500 yuan or a cumulative total of not more than 2,000 yuan per household per year will be provided; for those who need to borrow money for re-employment, an interest-free loan of up to 2,000 yuan for a period of one year will be provided; For loans, the municipal commercial bank can provide one-year interest discount for loans of less than 10,000 yuan per household; when employees in need have their legitimate rights and interests infringed due to labor disputes and need lawyers to represent them in litigation, the "Assistance Fund" can provide 50% of the lawyer's fees. . Recently, the city has issued a special call for "gang-one, pair-up" to help employees in need. The close integration of government care and social care mechanisms has enabled employees in need in Zhengzhou to receive timely and effective help. Li Ke, member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee, said that caring for groups in need is not only a government project, but also a systematic project for the whole society. It must take a multi-pronged approach and implement multiple strategies simultaneously to establish a long-term mechanism to ultimately help people in need get out of poverty. .

Zhengzhou City sets "rules" for corporate layoffs. In order to standardize corporate economic layoffs and protect the legitimate rights and interests of employees, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province issued the "Implementation Opinions on Corporate Economic Layoffs" this year. In the more than half a year since the "Opinions" were implemented, the city's labor disputes caused by economic layoffs have been significantly reduced, and there has not been a single incident of group petitions.

Zhongzhou Aluminum Plant workers take a dedicated railway line to work

The "Implementation Opinions on Enterprise Economic Retrenchment of Staff" formulated by the Zhengzhou Municipal Labor and Social Security Bureau clearly defines that only those who meet the following five requirements Enterprises can lay off employees only if they fall into any of the following situations: they are on the verge of bankruptcy and have been declared by the people's court to have entered a legal period of rectification; they have suffered serious losses and are insolvent and have been shut down for rectification with the approval of the government; their production and operations have suffered losses for three consecutive years and all production lines have been shut down. Those who have been unable to pay the minimum wage to employees for more than 12 months; those whose operating rate has been less than 60% for two consecutive years and those who have been unable to pay the minimum living expenses for more than 6 months; those who have been specially approved by the State Council or the provincial people's government due to reform and production needs. The "Opinions" stipulate that enterprises that can implement economic layoffs should follow the following procedures: explain the situation to the enterprise trade union or all employees 30 days in advance; formulate a layoff plan; the company's workers' congress or workers' conference shall review the layoff plan Vote and form a resolution; declare to relevant departments; the enterprise formally announces the layoff plan to all employees and goes through the procedures for terminating the labor contract, paying economic compensation and handling social insurance related procedures for the laid off employees.

For the first time, the Zhengzhou Municipal Government has also made special regulations on the personnel who cannot be laid off by enterprises: those who suffer from occupational diseases or work-related injuries and are confirmed to have lost or partially lost their ability to work; those who are sick or injured not due to work and are within the prescribed medical period; women Employees who are in pregnancy, childbirth, or lactation; spouses of active military personnel, survivors (spouses) of martyrs, disabled people resettled in proportion, labor models at or above the municipal level; old employees who are less than 10 years away from retirement age and those who have been placed in the company within two years Demobilized veterans, demobilized military officers and their spouses; if both husband and wife are in the same company, only one person is allowed to be laid off.

According to reports, in recent years, with the intensification of the reform of state-owned enterprises, economic layoffs have become one of the important measures for enterprises to seek reform and development, resulting in disputes between employees and enterprises caused by layoffs. It is on the rise and has become a major hidden danger affecting social stability. Based on a careful investigation of this situation, the Zhengzhou Municipal Labor and Social Security Department established "rules" for corporate layoffs for the first time in the province, which were generally welcomed by companies and employees. The private enterprise Henan Garden Group Company has merged or acquired nine state-owned enterprises in recent years, requiring tens of thousands more employees. In the past, there have been constant disputes over employment. Xie Guosheng, chairman of the company, said: "In the past, the government's regulations on enterprise employment practices and how to lay off employees were not clear. Enterprises and employees had to discuss matters, and failure to discuss resulted in conflicts. The issuance of the "Opinions" has given enterprises rules to follow and save provinces. It took a lot of time and energy. "It is understood that including the one-time buyout of seniority, the Garden Group has laid off more than 3,000 employees of various types this year, and there has not been a single petition. A worker from Henan Xinxin Pharmaceutical Company, which belongs to the company, said that with the government’s express regulations, the legitimate rights and interests of employees are naturally guaranteed.

Zhumadian City: 10,000 party members and cadres help 10,000 employees in need

Zhumadian City, Henan Province has carried out in-depth city-wide activities of "10,000 party members and cadres to help 10,000 employees in need" , changed the work style of cadres, and tightened the relationship between the party and the masses. At present, party members and cadres across the city are actively participating in providing assistance to employees in need, and social groups in need, especially employees in enterprises who are in need, are emotionally engaged in production and life.

Xu Ji’s Production Corner

Guo Shaowei, chairman of the Zhumadian Federation of Trade Unions, told reporters that since the beginning of this year, more than 11,000 party members and cadres in the city have paired up more than 15,000 employees in need. Assistance: Party members and cadres visited more than 27,000 needy workers in their homes, donated more than 2 million yuan in relief funds, sent 2,298 poverty alleviation projects, helped needy workers find 6,566 jobs, and provided technical and skill training to nearly 10,000 needy workers. .

There are more than 51,000 extremely poor workers in Zhumadian City, most of whom are concentrated in companies that have stopped production, semi-stopped production, or have gone bankrupt. After a detailed investigation of the number of employees in need, the Zhumadian Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government decided to launch the "Ten Thousands of Party Members and Cadres to Help Ten Thousand Employees in Need" campaign among all party members and cadres. The city has formulated a "one-to-one, paired" assistance method and steps, and determined the number of party members and cadres to participate in assistance activities. In terms of the distribution of assistance targets, the city proposed that party members and cadres of key enterprises should not only help the needy employees of their own enterprises, but also help the most needy employees of other needy enterprises. Leaders of the party and government departments should play a role of demonstration and leadership and select extremely poor households among needy employees for assistance. Leading cadres at the deputy director level and above must help at least one extremely poor employee and solve some practical problems within a time limit. After a period of assistance, Get them out of trouble and set an example for employees in difficulty. Queshan County Party Committee Secretary Xiang Yiyi paired up with Li Jianping, a laid-off employee of the county service company. While providing life assistance to him, he encouraged him to use his skills in making steamed buns to get rid of poverty with his own hands. He also personally helped her inspect the business location and start a business. The laid-off female worker entered the bun shop. Driven by leading cadres, the majority of party members and cadres in Zhumadian City have gone out of government agencies and units to provide assistance to the homes of employees in need.

Zhumadian City continues to expand assistance channels and expand the scope of assistance by giving full play to the enthusiasm of party members and cadres and the *** of their units to participate in assistance.

The Municipal Health Bureau coordinated with the medical and health departments to establish 14 hospitals with excellent medical treatment for extremely poor workers, issued medical discount certificates to extremely poor workers, and implemented a policy of free registration and 10% to 50% reduction in treatment fees. The education department has established a study aid center for children of needy workers to ensure that children of needy workers who receive compulsory education go to school normally, and that children of needy workers who are admitted to college do not drop out of school because they cannot afford the tuition fees. Trade union departments at all levels play the role of employee schools and hold various types of training courses free of charge to help employees in need change their employment concepts and improve their employment skills.

Zhengzhou: Implementing the “50,000 Employment Plan a Year”

Zhengzhou City, Henan Province has implemented the “50,000 Employment Plan a Year” since 2000 and has achieved remarkable results. In 2000 and 2001, the number of urban employees in the city reached 58,600 and 59,200 respectively. In the first half of this year, 33,740 urban job seekers in Zhengzhou City were employed, accounting for 67.5% of the annual plan.

Zhumadian Electric Meter Factory Production Workshop

The Zhengzhou Municipal Government has realized in practice that the key to solving urban employment and re-employment problems lies in investment and improving the construction of labor and employment service institutions. In recent years, the city has invested more than 50 million yuan in the face of financial difficulties to build and renovate the municipal human resources center market and sub-markets, re-employment training building, unemployment insurance service hall, job introduction center and labor and employment training center, etc. The office conditions and service functions of labor and employment service agencies have been significantly improved. The city's labor and employment training capacity has tripled compared with before, with the annual training capacity reaching 30,000 people. In the past three years, the city's finance has invested more than 10 million yuan in special training fees, and a total of 100,000 laid-off and unemployed people have been trained. In 2001, the city's employment agencies recommended 25,000 people for employment.

As one of the 100 community employment services and 10 domestic service pilot cities in the country, Zhengzhou City actively develops community service positions and absorbs more laid-off workers. In 2001, the city built more than 50 new labor service enterprises, community employment organizations, and production self-rescue bases, resettling more than 7,900 laid-off and unemployed people. Through the implementation of preferential government policies, more than 3,100 laid-off and unemployed people were helped to find themselves or organize themselves for employment. This year, the city has provided another 200 community security positions, giving priority to laid-off workers. Zhengzhou Zhongyuan Shasao Housekeeping Service Company collaborated with the Linshanzhai Subdistrict Office of Zhongyuan District to buy out the cleaning rights of more than 20 roads in the area and arranged for more than 200 laid-off workers. people.

In April this year, Jinshui District took the lead in establishing a community labor security service organization in Zhengzhou City, equipped with 160 staff, distributed computers to 105 community neighborhood committees in the district, and launched a comprehensive survey on laid-off, unemployed, and retired people in the area. Survey, registration and immediate service work for demobilized persons and urban minimum living allowance persons. The district human resources market regularly holds on-site job fairs every Friday and Saturday to provide free services to laid-off and unemployed people. In the first half of this year, 112 job fairs were held, receiving 7,762 job seekers and 782 employers. From January to June this year, 6,890 urban job seekers were employed and re-employed in the region, accounting for 65.6% of the plan issued by the municipal government.

Xinyang City: A quarter of laid-off workers are re-employed in other places through labor export

Xinyang City, Henan Province vigorously develops labor export and encourages laid-off workers to seek jobs outside the city, province, and abroad. , earn money. Currently, there are 29,000 laid-off workers in the city who have been re-employed through labor export, accounting for 27.6% of the number of laid-off workers. Labor export has become an important way to promote the re-employment of laid-off workers.

Laid-off female workers in Zhengzhou participate in volunteer activities

Xinyang City is a large agricultural city with many people and little land, and a weak industrial base. Among the city’s 7.7 million people, 80% are rural people. There are nearly 2 million rural surplus laborers and more than 80,000 laid-off workers from state-owned enterprises. Coupled with the new labor force every year, the city is facing huge employment pressure.

Migrant work has a tradition in Xinyang City. The municipal party committee and government have taken advantage of the situation, improved the organization, and provided good services.

The city has established a special Labor Export Administration Bureau, which works jointly with the Municipal Labor and Social Security Bureau. It has a Labor Export Management Office and is specifically responsible for the city's labor export work. Each county has also established corresponding institutions. During the institutional reform, the new county established the County Foreign Labor Cooperation Administration to highlight and strengthen the export of foreign labor services.

In many places, many migrant workers are voluntary, but local governments seem to be doing little. Xinyang City took the initiative and used the labor market information network to collect various reliable employment information and provide free consulting services to laid-off workers. In recent years, the city has established stable international and domestic labor cooperation relationships with large enterprises such as Xinjiang Construction Engineering Group and Shenzhen Foxconn Electronics Company, as well as large national multinational companies such as China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, and Tianjin Rieter Company. Since last year, the city's labor and security departments at all levels have released 1,025 pieces of domestic and international labor information, provided more than 76,000 employment positions, and resettled 4,801 laid-off workers. Li Fazhong, who works at a construction company in Xihe District, Xinyang City, was an ordinary plumber when he was exported to Xinjiang Construction Engineering Group in the early days. After more than ten years of struggle, he has now become a manager of a construction company leading more than 1,200 people, and has successively recruited 100 people from his hometown. Many laid-off workers went to seek employment. In 2001, he was jointly awarded the honor of "The Third National Outstanding Migrant Youth" by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the Ministry of Construction and other eight national ministries and commissions.

Xinxian County has a tradition of international labor export. During the export process, the county labor service company regards relocating laid-off workers as the focus of the export of foreign-related labor services. A certain proportion of each batch of foreign-related labor services is given priority. Provided to laid-off workers. In recent years, the county has exported more than 4,600 foreign labor services, including 680 laid-off workers, accounting for 45% of the total number of laid-off workers in need. The county's Personnel and Labor Bureau also raised more than 3 million yuan to establish a labor export technology training center. In recent years, more than 510 laid-off workers have been trained. In February this year, 56 more laid-off workers with certain professional skills were transported to the county. foreign.

Labor export not only promotes the re-employment of laid-off workers and solves their life problems, but also provides them with broad space for their future entrepreneurship. During the process of starting a business, Liu Xuefang, a laid-off female worker from a former food factory in Gushi County, went to work in a black rice winery in Yang County, Shaanxi Province in order to master the black rice wine brewing technology. After hard study and training, she founded her own black rice wine after returning to her hometown. Factory. At present, the factory has developed into a small and well-known private enterprise in southern Henan. It has fixed assets of 12 million yuan, an annual output value of 30 million yuan, and an annual profit of more than 1 million yuan. It has successively employed 150 laid-off workers and 46 rural poor people. She herself Named "Provincial Female Entrepreneurship Leader".

1.16 million people have been re-employed in Henan within four years.

Faced with the severe employment situation, Henan has adopted a variety of measures to achieve certain results in the province's re-employment work. According to statistics from the Provincial Department of Labor and Social Security, since 1998, a total of 1.167 million laid-off state-owned workers in the province have been re-employed, and the re-employment rate has remained above 46% every year; however, the re-employment rate has been declining year by year. The situation is getting more and more serious.

Since 1999, the main leaders of Henan Province have attended the province's social security work conference every year, made special arrangements for this work, and signed a "Social Security Target Management Responsibility Letter" with the municipal governments, and will re-employment Incorporate into the government target assessment system and important inspection matters. In April this year, the Provincial Party Committee held two consecutive meetings of party members and cadres to make arrangements to solve the production and living problems of people in need.

In the process of promoting re-employment, Henan has taken as many measures as possible according to local conditions. The experience of "five-pronged approach and eight simultaneous approaches" created by various localities in practice has been recognized by superiors. The "five-pronged" approach means that the government, enterprises, associations, streets and individuals work together to create a good atmosphere in which all aspects of care, support and participation in the re-employment of laid-off workers. The simultaneous implementation of the "eight methods" means that relevant departments in various places will boldly explore and adopt different measures based on local conditions to promote re-employment. Its measures mainly include the following aspects.

First, strengthen the construction and management of the labor market and improve the re-employment service system. The first is to develop and standardize the labor market. New labor markets in Zhengzhou, Sanmenxia, ??Shangqiu and other places have been put into operation. The site area, market functions, service levels, and personnel quality have been significantly improved compared with the past, providing good services for the reemployment of laid-off workers. In order to standardize the order of the labor market, the province has carried out labor market clean-up and rectification work. Currently, 279 illegal employment intermediaries have been investigated and dealt with, 50 "Employment Agency Licenses" have been revoked, and 213 have been suspended or rectified within a time limit. The second is to strengthen job introduction services. Last year alone, the province held 850 large-scale re-employment fairs, received 800,000 job seeker registrations, and successfully introduced 260,000 people. The third is to actively carry out re-employment training and improve the vocational skills and entrepreneurial abilities of laid-off workers and unemployed people by enhancing the pertinence, practicality and effectiveness of training. On the basis of carefully summarizing the training experience of the previous period of "800,000 in three years", Henan formulated and implemented the province's second "three million in three years" re-employment training plan, that is, starting from the end of 2001, using three years Train 1 million laid-off workers.

Tractor factory workers are making scientific and technological inventions

Second, formulate, improve and implement preferential re-employment policies. In 2000, in order to further promote re-employment, the provincial government specially formulated 20 preferential policies and measures, and made clear provisions on tax reduction and exemption, fund credit, site arrangements, simplified service procedures and other policies. Last year, labor, planning, supervision, urban construction and other policies The , People's Bank of China, Industry and Commerce, and Taxation departments are also conducting major inspections on the implementation of preferential policies throughout the province. In the past three years, Zhengzhou's industrial and commercial administration departments at all levels have arranged 1,052 stalls for laid-off workers, opened 7 markets specifically for laid-off workers, arranged for 8,277 laid-off workers to be employed, and exempted laid-off workers from industrial and commercial management fees of more than 2.5 million yuan every year. . The city's taxation department exempted 18 million yuan from corporate income tax involving the re-employment of laid-off workers. The municipal health department waives health management fees for enterprises that place laid-off workers and individuals who are self-employed. In the past three years, more than 100,000 laid-off and unemployed people have been re-employed in Zhengzhou City, half of whom are laid-off workers.

Third, continue to carry out re-employment assistance operations to promote the smooth re-employment of laid-off workers out of the center. Since last year, a large number of laid-off workers have been leaving the centers after the three-year agreement expired. In order to ensure a balanced exit from the centers and avoid unstable factors, the province has launched a re-employment assistance operation focusing on the three major themes of "promoting employment, ensuring livelihood, and receiving insurance" , taking eight major measures, including policy consultation, providing employment information and career guidance, and labor security agency, to provide re-employment assistance to laid-off workers and unemployed persons whose agreement period has expired or is about to expire. Labor and security departments at all levels in Zhengzhou City have distributed more than 6,000 policy brochures, extended more than 5,200 social insurance links to laid-off and unemployed people, provided more than 56,000 pieces of employment information free of charge, and assisted more than 11,400 people to achieve re-employment. Last year, there were a large number of people leaving the centers in the province, and conflicts were prominent. However, through the reemployment assistance operation, no major social fluctuations occurred during the peak period.

Fourth, implement the assistance program and mobilize the whole society to promote re-employment. Kaifeng City began to carry out the assistance program in 1999 to help laid-off workers achieve re-employment as soon as possible. 241 government agencies and institutions under the municipal government have paired up with 241 neighborhood committees, using the neighborhood committees as contact points to establish a helping relationship with laid-off workers within their jurisdiction. At present, various assistance units have established assistance funds of 3.678 million yuan, helped neighborhood committees to establish 821 community service outlets, and enabled 22,159 laid-off workers to achieve re-employment. Xinyang, Xinxiang and other places have also carried out different forms of pairing activities.

Other measures include establishing sub-district labor management service agencies to promote community re-employment; vigorously carrying out labor export work, promoting re-employment of laid-off workers in other places, transplanting the "Bangladesh Poverty Alleviation Model", and providing small-scale employment for unemployed and laid-off workers. low-interest loans to support their second employment.

According to the Provincial Department of Labor and Social Security, although Henan's reemployment work has achieved certain results and the employment situation is basically stable, there are still many problems that need to be solved urgently.

Repair county workers signed up to work in rural areas

The re-employment situation is becoming increasingly severe and the employment pressure is huge. As the most populous province in the country, Henan has an underdeveloped economy and the contradiction between labor supply and demand is very prominent. There are huge groups of laid-off workers and unemployed people. By the end of 2001, there were actually 500,000 laid-off workers in Henan Province, including 260,000 in state-owned enterprises, 77,500 laid-off workers who had not terminated their labor relations and were re-employed and had difficulty living after leaving the center, and another 230,000 unemployed people. It is expected that 300,000 new laid-off workers will be added this year, and with the 500,000 new urban labor force added every year, the total number of people in need of employment in cities and towns this year will be about 1.5 million. Only about half of the jobs can be provided throughout the year, and the contradiction between supply and demand is very prominent.

Financial difficulties are common and employment service centers are stretched beyond their capabilities. Financial difficulties are common across Henan Province, mostly related to food finance. There is a serious lack of investment in labor market construction funds and re-employment promotion funds in various places. There is no venue for holding re-employment job fairs for laid-off workers. It is difficult to easily and quickly deliver career information to laid-off workers. There is generally a lack of funds for re-employment training. The office funds of most city and county employment service agencies have not been secured, and even the survival of some local employment service agencies has become a problem. There are more than 40,000 centrally laid-off workers in Kaifeng City, and it is currently extremely difficult to even raise funds for basic living security for laid-off workers.

It is difficult for laid-off workers to terminate their labor relations after leaving the center. Enterprises in difficulty are unable to pay economic compensation and historical debts. According to the investigation, in 2000, the historical debts of enterprises (including wages, social insurance, fund-raising funds, mortgages, medical expenses, housing provident funds, etc.) involved 453,300 laid-off employees, amounting to 5.923 billion yuan, and economic compensation should be paid The average per capita debt is 6,316 yuan, and the historical debt per capita is 13,100 yuan. According to statistics, 223,700 workers were laid off when their contracts (agreements) expired in the province in 2001. This year, nearly 120,000 workers were laid off when their labor contracts expired. The contracts of these people have expired, and most of them have no employment prospects. According to national policies, they are included in unemployment insurance. Each person needs about more than 10,000 yuan in economic compensation, but most companies are currently unable to fulfill it. The laid-off workers who have stayed in the "center" for three years are worrying about their future, and companies are once again pushed to the forefront in the face of their resurgence. Looking at the province as a whole, about 69% of laid-off workers are unable to solve this problem because their companies are in a state of half-stop production.