On October 19, 2020, the Prime Minister issues the Decision No. 32/2020/QD-TTg on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 15/2020/QD-TTg dated April 24, 2020 providing regulations on the implementation of policies to support people facing difficulties
due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accordingly, one more group of people affected by COVID-19 pandemic shall be entitled to the support policy, including: Employees working for people-founded and private education institutions, and public education institutions that exercise financial autonomy in terms of frequent expenditures at early childhood, pre-primary, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary level, with no revenue or financial source to pay the salary due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.
An enterprise or education institution shall make a List of employees temporarily suspended from their labor contracts and taken unpaid leave, and request the grassroots trade unions and social insurance agencies to certify this List.
According to the supplementing and amending provisions, an employer may borrow capital for payment of job-stopping wage for employees if there is having an employee participating in compulsory social insurance that are required to stop working for 01 consecutive month or more during the period from April 01, 2020 to the end of December 31, 2020, instead of having 20% or 30 or more employees who are participating in compulsory social insurance and are required to stop working for 01 consecutive month or more as prescribed in previous provisions.
This Decision takes effect on the signing date.