Now it’s even easier to combine unemployment benefits and education – Tu.no

In connection with the revised national government presented further changes in dagpengeregelverket making it easier to combine Nav support and education.

These are in addition to the changes that were presented earlier this spring, and will help people who lose their jobs do not meet barriers to adapt to new jobs, according to the government.

the changes mean among other things that it would be possible to take shorter courses of study in the daytime, while it is part-time, without losing the right to unemployment benefits.

– These changes resolve still not issue many of Tekna unemployed members, said union president Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg to TU.

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– the government wants to facilitate more flexibility in the labor market, allowing job seekers get better opportunities to reorganize and qualify for jobs. Therefore, the Government proposes further regulatory changes that will make it easier to combine unemployment benefits with education, writes the government said in a statement.

The proposed changes:

• The government will allow brief education in daytime can be taken part-time. This will give the unemployed an opportunity to promote education beyond a period of a far more flexible manner than today.

 

• The government will also ask the Labour and Welfare to change practices who can get unemployment benefits when they establish their own business. Today, an unemployed entrepreneur get discounts on unemployment benefit if one could potentially displace other activities with their idea.

 

In addition, the proposed changes will provide unemployed immigrants the chance to improve her Norwegian and maximize their chances on the job market.

The proposed changes is scheduled to take effect from 1 July this year.

Engineer Vacancy

It’s no longer ago than the end of April the government announced that they would introduce new rules for unemployment benefits and education May 1st.

The reason for the rule change is the high unemployment rate among engineers.

– We have seen that there is a rigid regulations that have placed restrictions on the unemployed who want continuing education and professional input. WE have seen that there are many who had started education while they were working, so they lost their job and then they did not get unemployment benefits. And it is unreasonable, said Hauglie- to TU in that regard.

The changes came into force on 1 May this year:

• until ten days with daytime courses per semester are allowed, without unemployment benefits lapses.

 
• People who have started training before unemployment, and not as a consequence of it, you get a further derogation from the current requirement that teaching can not take place during daytime.

 
• The right to receive unemployment benefits during the creation of their own business will be expanded from the current nine to twelve months (from July 1).

 
• See also: After two months of decline, the engineer unemployment now stabilized

 

– Insufficient

Neither Tekna or Nito found the last changes in the regulations was enough.

Tekna does not believe that the new proposed expansion of the regulatory framework will be sufficient.

– These changes will not help resolve many of Tekna unemployed members. Today they lose unemployment benefits if they take courses that may be included in a degree daytime at universities and colleges. For unemployed with a master is the most appropriate to take such courses, says Randeberg.

– We are obviously delighted that the Minister of Labour will make it easier to increase competence when one is unemployed. But we are still waiting for that anniken hauglie removes the provision in dagpengeforskriften which excludes courses that provide credits, she points out.

Positive warming

– This is not very big changes, but there is a softening. Before you could study during the day up to three months, now you can spread it over more time. It is positive and it shows that they have listened to what we have said that systems must not be too rigid, but have room for flexibility and common sense, says Nito President Trond Markussen to TU.

– is that enough?

– I think that it’s a start. It is a positive approach that needs to be done, he said.

Markussen points out that they are working to find out what kind of expertise the e employers lacking but that the unemployed engineers today do not have.

– For this we do not know completely. We start up a project to find out what kind of education is needed for engineers to go out in the new job. Once we know that, then we will know what kind of rule changes that may be required to enable engineers to be able to make the right continuing education courses, he points out.

– Acute situation

However, also Nito leader would rather have seen that in addition was opened to the course which gives credits.

– If there is a degree needed to meet an employer’s needs as they unemployed engineers have the ability to it. We want the fewest possible restrictions, he stressed.

Markussen also adds that this is not the changes that need to be permanent.

– This may be temporary. We have an emergency situation requiring special measures, which we then quit when the situation is another.

Extends layoff period

The Government proposes in addition to expand period laid off may receive unemployment benefit, from the current 30 weeks to a total of 49 weeks during a 18 month period.

the government also proposes to introduce a new, five-day pay wages period for employers, which occurs after 30 weeks.

– Unemployment Layoff can give businesses the opportunity to retain skilled labor through a period of temporary restrictions. At the same time no arrangement preclude a necessary restructuring, and it is important that employers thoroughly assess the need to maintain their workforce, says Hauglie-.

The changes will apply to both layoffs that have already been initiated but not completed before that date, and for new layoffs implemented by July 1.