Improving the skills of Indonesian workers will also be a priority, said National Development Planning Minister Suharso Monoarfa.
Employees who experience miscarriage or still birth should also be provided with paid leave, said the Community and Public Sector Union.
To qualify for the handout, businesses must show a 40% drop in revenue over seven consecutive days during the six weeks prior to February 15.
Despite the rollout of government work support initiatives, employers have been reluctant to offer decent salaries to potential workers.
The Japanese Trade Union Confederation wants businesses to define workplace rules related to the eligibility for remote work.
The health ministry noted that the current infectious rate of COVID-19 in the country is higher, and most likely caused by the Omicron variant.
Instead, pay increases are more likely to come in the form of one-time bonuses, which may not lead to increased household spending
Government support ensured the unemployment rate hit 3.5% instead of 7.5% in 2021, said the country’s finance ministry.
The majority of recruitment remains concentrated in capital cities, with the highest number of job ads in Sydney and Melbourne.
Foreign workers would send back the surplus of their salaries to their home countries, instead of spending their earnings in Malaysia, says employers group.
84% of fresh graduates were employed in full-time jobs within six months of completing their exams, an increase from 69.8% in 2020 and 81.7% in 2019.
Incentives that are based on employees’ use of sick leave will be deemed as “unfair practice”, says the Manpower Minister.
The country aims to nurture local talent, instead of relying heavily on skilled foreign workers in the industry.
Workers employed in regional Australia last December was just 1% more than in December 2020, while job ads ballooned by 36%.
S$8.6 billion in loans was provided to 12,600 companies in 2021, compared to S$18 billion to 21,000 companies in 2020.
The move is designed to strike the right balance between retaining the standard of living for low-wage workers and meeting the needs of businesses.
Some 22% of company boards also do not have a single woman on them, while less than one in five CEOs are female, a report has found.
Employees have suffered as much as employers during the pandemic, said the Labour Law Reform Coalition.
The handouts will exclude workers who lost their jobs before the current wave of outbreaks began last December.
The educational programmes are slated to start in fiscal 2022, and are designed to improve the employability of Japanese workers.
In recent weeks, the number of furloughed workers in Taiwan has hovered around 10,000, which indicates a stable trend, said an official.
Employers have been told to avoid face-to-face meetings for now, and are encouraged to help their workers undergo regular COVID-19 tests.
Heads of departments are also called on to ensure that employees wear face masks at all times, and abide by the appropriate social distancing measures.
This prediction is based on year-end tax adjustments of foreign employees’ official tax data, with the majority of these workers coming from China.
Prior to this, the authorities had said that those who were unemployed could get help from existing social welfare schemes.
WHO also highlighted some positives from teleworking, which was found to have a positive effect on self-reported health.
The number of people aged 15 and above who are able and willing to hold a job is forecast to start a downward turn after reaching its peak in 2025.
The ratio of job availability stood at 1.13 in 2021, indicating that there were 113 openings for every 100 jobseekers, down 0.05 points from 2020.
The government has proposed a compulsory national income insurance scheme which would replace 80% of a workers’ income, up to a cap of NZ$130,911.
Although the country sees some signs of recovery, the situation still remains “very unstable”, said a labour official.