The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law «on amendments to the Employment Act be done «» employment» (the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council and Government Informant, 1992, 4/5; 1993, 20/21) as follows: 1. Article 1: turn off the second part of paragraph 1, the words «standing»;
adding to the third paragraph after the words «other job placement organisation» with the words «which received authorisation (licence)».
2. Make the text of article 3 by the following: «State employment service activities related to the realization of this Act shall be financed from the State budget as well as from the national employment fund, consisting of: 1) public funds;
2) income from the public service employment Act;
3) natural and legal persons contribution.»
3. Make the text of article 4 by the following: «local government employment must: 1) in collaboration with the district or town employment public service develop employment policies in its territory;
2) in collaboration with the district or town employment public service to organize the unemployed as a result of temporary public works;
3) provide the district and city employment public services for the tasks required for the implementation of the information;
4) to put employment, public services for the premises necessary.»
4. Put article 5 second subparagraph by the following: «If the company will be eliminated, the authority or the body or be freed workers, the employer is obliged to warn the public employment service and the municipality not later than two months in advance.»
5. Express the second law chapter name as follows: «the unemployed social».
6. To make article 6 the first subparagraph by the following: «The unemployed constitute the working citizen of Latvia or a foreigner (stateless person) who received permanent residence permit or passport is the population register tag with personal code and who do not work, is the working age who does not have other income to at least the minimum wage, who do not do business, looking for work, are registered with the employment services of the country after the sign and at least once a month this turns service.»
7. Article 7: make the first part of paragraph 4 by the following: «4) receive unemployment allowance»;
consider the first part of paragraph 5 of section 7;
to supplement the first part with point 5 and 6 in the following wording: «5) receive scholarships to vocational training or retraining;
6) to participate in the interim result in public»;
make the second paragraph by the following: «the Unemployed are obliged to report: 1) on changes which interrupts his unemployed status;
2) on the sickness, which is longer than two weeks.»
8. Express article 8 as follows: «article 8. Unemployment benefit (scholarship) an unemployed person may receive: 1) unemployment benefits;
2) scholarships to vocational training or retraining.
Allowance (scholarship) paid from the social insurance funds.
At the same time with the unemployment allowance (scholarship) from the State budget the unemployed can receive State benefits for families with children and from the State budget and municipal budgets: a one-time social assistance benefits.
Benefits are not granted to persons who: 1) stopped working relationship at the same election;
2) released from work on the agenda or work to infringements of the provisions of the Treaty;
3) in accordance with the existing laws may receive a pension or other benefits, except in the third paragraph of this article, these benefits;
4) is located in full state maintenance;
5) is the education day section students or students.»
9. Make article 9 as follows: «article 9. The receipt of unemployment benefit rules granting unemployment benefits, from the fourteenth day after the registration of the city or district public service employment.
The total period of receiving unemployment benefits is six months, twelve months period.
The district or city to the employment services of the Cabinet has the right within the individual areas found in the unemployed following local application to extend unemployment benefit receipt period to 12 months. An extension of time to the unemployed person is entitled to unemployment benefits if he is not less than 20 hours per week participating in unpaid public work organised by the municipality. If such works are not organized, unemployment benefits are paid from the municipal budget.
The unemployment benefit period extended accordingly also on his life, but I have been ill for no more than six months.
For the unemployed who are entitled to unemployment benefits, it shall be paid 90 percent of the country's minimum wage, if the last twelve month period of that person in the Republic of Latvia the social tax payments of not less than six months.
Unemployment benefit 70% of national minimum wage paid to the unemployed person, on which the last twelve month period, the Republic of Latvia the social tax payments have not been made or done in less than six months, if during the said period he belonged to one of the following categories of jobseekers: 1) finished school and obtained a document showing the General secondary education, vocational education, secondary special and higher education;
2) released from prison;
3) is no longer on the complete country dependent, even after he retired from the active reserve service;
4) is a woman who has children from three to three and a half years of age;
5) is disabled, who recovered his capacity. "
10. Add to article 9.1 of the law with the following wording: article 9.1. The cost of unemployment benefits and when you lose the right to unemployment benefits the unemployment allowance shall be suspended where the costs: 1 beneficiaries) to receive unemployment benefits deadline arrives in full state maintenance;
2) signed a contract of participation as a result of temporary public works;
3) enters into a contract of employment for a period of up to two months. Unemployed lose their entitlement to unemployment benefit, if he: 1) two times suited to refuse a job offer;
2) twice refusing from the vocational training or retraining in cases where you cannot find a suitable job;
3) without justifiable reason not to attend vocational training or retraining classes or work contract, making the result of temporary public works;

4) making a permanent move to the outside of the Republic of Latvia;
5) loses the status of unemployed person.»
11. Express article 10 by the following: article 10. Scholarship rules for receiving unemployment vocational training and retraining for the unemployed during the scholarship paid 50 percent of the country's minimum wage, beginning with the first day of training or retraining, but no more than six months during the 12-month period. The deadline for receipt of unemployment benefits do not restrict the amount and cost of the scholarship period.
Unemployed lose their entitlement to the scholarship if he: 1) without justifiable reason not to attend vocational training or retraining classes.
2) scholarships receive come in full state maintenance;
3) loses the status of unemployed person.»
12. To make the text of article 12 as follows: «the unemployed person retains entitlement to vocational training or retraining, not less than once in two years with the State employment service's designation, if he: 1) can not find a job because he lacks professional knowledge;
2) unable to find work in the profession, previously acquired specialty;
3) has lost professional skills.
The training of the unemployed who have reached 18 years of age, is made from the employment promotion for the State budget, but the training of the unemployed who are under the age of 18 years, including vocational education for the State budget. "
13. Article 13: make the first paragraph by the following: «authorities after receiving the consent of the unemployed in cooperation with the State employment service organise him paid temporary community work»;
make the second paragraph by the following: «The unemployed who wish to work in paid temporary community work, the employment contract is concluded for a period of up to two months with the right extension»;
make the third subparagraph by the following: «paid temporary public works is not credited to the unemployment benefit period prescribed and not stop it»;
to make a fifth by the following: «on the basis of the State employment service and Subscriber contracts, partly to pay for the persons who perform paid temporary public works, and this work may be used to finance the national budget and the national employment fund»;
Supplement to the sixth article by the following: «the State budget as a result of temporary public works involved unemployment pay can be used to the extent that per month for each unemployed person does not exceed the national minimum wage. "
14. Make the text of article 14 as follows: «unemployment benefits (scholarships) to receive does not prevent the unemployed entitled to material assistance to the municipal social care Division.»
15. Replace article 17, the words «for the good of the social insurance budget» with the words «and placed in the national budget».
The law shall enter into force on the day of its promulgation.
The Parliament adopted the law of 16 December 1993.
The President g. Ulmanis in Riga in 1994 January 5