EVEA applies for a change in unemployment insurance law
06.11.2008, 16:19Estonian association of small and medium
sized companies (EVEA) sent Parliament an amendment regarding redundancy
compensation, postimees.ee reports.
EVEA considers the situation where all companies have to pay unemployment
insurance fee, at the same time company gets collective redundancy
compensation compensation when at least five employees have been
collectively dismissed, uneven for small companies.
EVEA made a proposal to broaden the right for redundancy compensation for all
companies with up to 299 employees of whom at least 10 pct have been laid off in
last 30 days.
“We find that with this amendment we’d protect interests of small
entrepreneurs we’d follow the principle of equal treating and take a step that
all employees who pay unemployment insurance fee could also possibly have
compensation,” Kersti Kraas, manager of EVEA said.