16 departments promote the action of promoting rural development through home economics, guiding domestic enterprises to prioritize retaining services for poverty-stricken populations | Home Economics | Enterprises
The "2023 Home Economics and Agriculture Action Plan" formulated by 16 departments including the Ministry of Commerce was announced to the public on July 13. The plan proposes to guide domestic service enterprises to give priority to retaining poverty-stricken populations, and provide unemployment insurance stabilization returns and social insurance subsidies to eligible domestic service enterprises in accordance with regulations. Encourage public institutions to prioritize purchasing services from domestic enterprises that hire poverty alleviation workers.
In order to consolidate and expand the achievements of domestic poverty alleviation and effectively connect it with the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and better play the role of the domestic service industry in promoting consumption, benefiting people's livelihoods, and stabilizing employment, the plan proposes 16 specific measures in four aspects: expanding employment channels, improving employment quality, strengthening tracking services, and improving supporting policies.
In terms of expanding employment channels, the plan proposes to guide local organizations to organize reputable and standardized domestic service enterprises, seize holidays, agricultural slack and other time nodes, and hold supply and demand docking activities in counties with abundant labor resources. The focus is on promoting and explaining employment policies and other content, and attracting monitoring objects to prevent poverty return, local poverty-stricken populations, and low-income rural populations to engage in domestic service. Organize an online "Home Service Recruitment Season" activity to innovate supply and demand matching methods.
In terms of improving employment quality, the plan proposes to implement a skill upgrade action for domestic service staff and provide free online training for them. Carry out training on household service skills for migrant workers, and encourage and support migrant workers who are willing to engage in household services in key counties for national rural revitalization and concentrated resettlement areas for poverty alleviation and relocation to participate in vocational skills training. A number of practical training programs will be launched to address the shortage of domestic services such as elderly care and infant care. To cultivate a group of professional domestic service talents for emerging professions such as storage and organization, on-site cooking, and home decoration and beautification.
In terms of strengthening tracking services, the plan proposes to focus on the employment progress of poverty-stricken populations and monitoring targets to prevent them from returning to poverty, and guide them to achieve employment in the domestic service industry. Encourage regions with conditions to release information on the salary and price of domestic service staff, and guide domestic service enterprises to establish and improve a salary distribution system that is in line with the characteristics of skilled talents. Promote the use of demonstration samples of domestic service contracts to protect the legitimate rights and interests of domestic consumers, servers, and enterprises.
In terms of improving supporting policies, the plan proposes to supervise and guide domestic enterprises to sign labor contracts or service agreements with laborers from key counties for rural revitalization and concentrated resettlement areas for poverty alleviation and relocation in accordance with the law. Strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment. For key groups such as migrant workers, laid-off and unemployed individuals, and those facing employment difficulties engaged in domestic and individual businesses, they shall enjoy policies such as entrepreneurship guarantee loans, tax incentives, and entrepreneurship subsidies in accordance with regulations.
