Gunsan City, Youth 'Unemployed and Workplaces' "Get Support~"

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[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Lim Jae-woo] Gunsan City is recruiting applicants from the 25th for the ‘Youth Unemployed Vitality Support Fund Project’ and the ‘Youth Workplace Part-time Workforce Support Project’ as the employment market shrinks and youth unemployment increases due to the spread of COVID-19.

The ‘Youth Unemployed Vitality Support Fund Project’ provides living stabilization support funds to young people who have been employed for more than one month in part-time, short-term, daily labor, or part-time jobs and have become unemployed. It plans to support 180 unemployed youths.

This project was devised to address the blind spots where young people not enrolled in employment insurance cannot receive unemployment benefits.

The recruitment target is youths aged 18 to 39 (born between 1980 and 2002) residing in Gunsan City who have been unemployed for more than one month from January 20, the date of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Korea, until the announcement date. Selected youths will receive 500,000 KRW per month for up to three months.

The ‘Youth Workplace Part-time Workforce Support Project’ supports labor costs for newly hired part-time youth workers at youth-run workplaces. It aims to alleviate the management burden of youth-run businesses in Gunsan facing difficulties such as decreased sales and to promote youth employment.

The recruitment targets are workplaces with fewer than five regular employees, where the business owner is a youth, and that can newly hire part-time youth workers. Support will be provided to 40 such workplaces.

Selected workplaces that hire youths by the end of June will receive up to 2 million KRW per month (including 20% employer contribution) for labor costs over four months.

A city official stated, “The application period for the part-time workforce support project is until the 10th of next month, and for the vitality support fund until the 14th. Applications can be submitted online through the Jeonbuk Youth Hub Center website.”

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