Regional mobility teams must assist people who have lost their job due to the corona crisis in finding a new job, write Minister Wouter Koolmees and State Secretary Bas van ‘t Wout of Social Affairs and Employment in a Wednesday evening. brief to the House of Representatives. The House will debate on Thursday about the third support package for companies and the self-employed who are in trouble due to the corona crisis.
The cabinet is making a total of 1.4 billion euros available to guide people who lose their jobs to new work.
Many people are losing their jobs due to the corona crisis, but there is work in many other sectors. Municipalities, the UWV benefits agency and social partners therefore work together in the regional teams to help people find other work.
With this approach, the government hopes to give people who are at risk of losing or have already lost their job the assurance that they will receive appropriate guidance, so that they do not need benefits. Job seekers should be able to go to one counter for help as much as possible, Koolmees writes.
The intensive supervision was a request from the House of Representatives, after the PvdA submitted a motion. PvdA leader Lodewijk Asscher called a so-called work guarantee on Wednesday “essential” to support the third package.
Employer responsible for new job dismissed employee
According to the motion, an employer must ensure that that person finds another job elsewhere in the event of dismissal. “An employee must have the guarantee that he will not be sent to a benefits counter,” said Asscher. The cabinet supports the motion, Koolmees writes.
A total of 1.4 billion euros has been earmarked for a social package. This package has been worked out in recent weeks. EUR 683 million of the amount is intended for support and guidance in the search for new work by, among others, the regional mobility teams. 200 million euros will also be made available for further training and retraining of jobseekers and 150 million euros will be released for municipalities, among others, to help people who end up in debt.
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