Softened the conditions for the appointment of unemployment insurance payments: the period of the required experience is reduced by 6 months, and the waiting time is 3 months from the end of the employment contract – canceled. This is stated in the report of the Ministry of Azerbaijan.
Submitted by President Ilham Aliyev Changes to the Law “On Insurance from Unemployment” are another support for improving social protection of the unemployed. With new changes, the conditions for the appointment of unemployment insurance payments are somewhat mitigated, and for persons dismissed due to the expiration of the employment contract, the required experience is reduced from 36 to 30 months.
was also canceled 3-month waiting period after the date of registration of working faces as unemployed to appoint insurance payments. Thus, insurance payments will be appointed immediately after a person who has lost work will contact the relevant statement.
Note that unemployment insurance payments are paid in 3 cases:
– when dismissing from the employer;
– while reducing staff;
– when the term of employment contract is expired.
To verify the right to receive unemployment insurance payments, registration is required in the “Employment” subsystem (contacting the employment centers or territorial branches of employment).
If it is not possible to find a suitable job for a person, he is assigned the status of unemployed, and after its registration as an unemployed, he confirms the appropriate statement placed in the system. A citizen, in turn, is reported to decide on the appointment or refusal to pay insurance compensation.
in the department also reported that in 2020 the legislation amended, according to which the insurance payment for unemployment applies to persons who have become unemployed as a result of the end of the employment contract. Over the past year, the unemployment insurance payments were appointed 3.7 thousand people.