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![The self-employed affected by the Corona measures should continue to receive help. Minister of Social Affairs Alain Berset is responsible for this.]()
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The self-employed affected by the Corona measures should continue to receive help. Minister of Social Affairs Alain Berset is responsible for this.
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![The event industry continues to be severely affected by restrictions.]()
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The event industry continues to be severely affected by restrictions.
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![The cultural sector drew attention to the problem of corona with its “Night of light” campaign - here at the KKL Luzern.]()
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The cultural sector drew attention to the problem of corona with its “Night of light” campaign – here at the KKL Luzern.
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SVP Minister of Economy Guy Parmelin calls for targeted support.
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The Federal Council is still helping the self-employed. Aid to the self-employed directly and indirectly affected by the Corona crisis will be extended until mid-September. The government decided that today.
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At the end of May, the Corona aid for tens of thousands of self-employed and small entrepreneurs had expired. This caused an outcry and pressure from Parliament.
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Now many affected people can breathe a sigh of relief. Self-employed persons who are particularly affected by the measures to curb the corona pandemic can count on Corona help again through the income replacement scheme (EO). Those affected do not need to take any special steps, the AHV compensation funds resume paying their Corona earnings replacement, as the Federal Council wrote.
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EO is expanded
The people working in their own company in the event area who are in a hardship situation can now also claim corona compensation, as reported by BLICK yesterday. In the meantime, the latter were able to access short-time work allowances. Now you have to make a new application to the compensation office, whereby the implementation should take a few weeks.
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With the adjustment, the responsibility for the self-employed will shift entirely to the internal department of Federal Councilor Alain Berset (48). The additional costs for the extension and expansion of the Corona income replacement are estimated at around CHF 1 billion.
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Short-time work is extended to 18 months
Since April, over 190,000 companies have applied for short-time work allowances for around 1.9 million employees. This corresponds to around 36 percent of all employees in Switzerland.
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The economic situation remains tense. In order to give companies more air and safeguard jobs, the Federal Council has therefore extended the maximum period for which short-time work benefits are paid from 12 to 18 months. There is a grace period of one day. This amendment to the ordinance will come into force on September 1 and will apply until the end of 2021.
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The federal government is to assume corona-related costs
However, the support measures cost money. So far, the unemployment fund has to pay more than CHF 20 billion. Usually, the fund is financed through the ALV contributions from employers and employees. If the fund’s debt rises to over eight billion francs, wage contributions must automatically be increased.
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However, the Federal Council wants to avoid such an additional burden on the economy. Therefore, the federal government should assume the corona-related costs for short-time work allowances. He gave a corresponding draft law today for consultation. The law will be passed in the autumn session.
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