Unemployed have to fight for the compensations in Estonia

Although the new employment act gives compensation for those who have left work for their own initiative, many unemployed currently can’t get their benefits, Postimees writes.

So the unemployed that were in the Labour Market Board were upset for they can’t get compensations.

“The company dismissed tens of people at the same time, but officially – we were forced to sign demission,” a Russian woman told her story.

“The employer said – otherwise he’ll find so many mistakes they’ll fire me for doing my job badly,” the woman said. So the woman does not get any subsidies, although she could get 40 pct of her salary.

Her husband was dismissed also in a way that doesn’t give him any compensation.

“The situation is bad, but luckily our son has a job and we don’t have big loans,” the woman said.

The consultants and the Labour Market Board said that the situation in which employers use such methods are more common. Vacancies are gone fast and the amount of job offers abroad has decreased.

Two last months the Unemployment Insurance Fund had to use reserves for unemployment compensations for the amounts paid were bigger than amounts collected. The fund has to use reserves next year as well for the worsened situation and the new employment act.

Source http://balticbusinessnews.com/default2.aspx

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