On December 29th, 2023, The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs issued Circular No.15/2023/TT-BLDTBXH on amendments to Circular 20/2015/TT-BLDTBXH on guidelines for Article 52 of the Law on Employment and Decree No. 28/2015/ND-CP of the government on guidelines for the law on employment in terms of unemployment insurance. Whereby, there are some new regulations on making job-seeking notices during unemployment allowance receipt as follows:
The employee who has received unemployment benefit is exempted from making a monthly job-seeking notice in person if they fall under one of the following cases during that required time:
- The male employee reaches 60 years of age or older, and the female employee reaches 55 years of age or older; (New regulation)
- The employee suffers from sickness certified by a competent health facility;
- The employee has taken parental leave certified by a competent health facility. A male employee whose wife died in childbirth and is now the child’s primary caregiver, certified by the child’s birth certificate and the wife’s death certificate; (New regulation)
- The employee meets with an accident certified by the traffic police or a competent health facility;
- The employee suffers from fire, flood, earthquake, tsunami, hostility, or epidemic disease certified by the President of the People’s Committee of commune, ward, or town;
- The employee’s parent, spouse or child dies; the employee, or their child gets married certified by the People’s Committee of commune;
- The employee has attended a vocational course under a decision of the Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs and certified by the vocational training facility; (New regulation)
- The employee has executed a fixed-term employment contract of less than 3 months; (New regulation)
- Undergo voluntary detoxification with confirmation from the detoxification facility or the President of the People’s Committee of commune; (New regulation)
- The employee changes the location to receive benefits as prescribed in Clause 5 of this Article. (New regulation)
The employee must notify the employment service center (via phone, email, fax, etc.) of their reason for exemption from making job seeking notice within 03 days after the required deadline, and send a registered mail or authorize another person to submit an original or notarized copy of one the above-mentioned documents to prove that the employee is not obligated to make job-seeking notice, except for the case that the male employee reaches 60 years of age or older, the female employee reaches 55 years of age or older.
If the document is sent by post, the date of the postmark is considered as the sending date.
Circular No. 15/2023/TT-BLDTBXH takes effect from February 15th, 2024.
