Social Policy Standing Committee issues resolution for promoting labor and employment
The Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social Policy, Education, Culture and Science met on Tuesday to review recommendations from its task force in charge of overseeing laws on social welfare and promoting employment, operation of the General Authority of Labor and Welfare Services.
Head of the task force, MP D.Ganbold, reported on the recommendations from the task force.
Through its mission, the task force visited departments of labor and welfare services in Nalaikh District, a retirement home in Batsumber soum of Tuv Province, employment and social welfare authorities of the capital, and labor and welfare department of Bayankhongor Province to carry out reviews.
In response to recommendations from the task force, the standing committee’s members discussed a resolution that will recommend the government to improve the implementations of the laws and the government policies on labor and social welfare.
The standing committee’s members in attendance unanimously agreed to approve the resolution.
Lawmaker D.Ganbold stated that increasing the financial capacity of the government’s fund to promote employment, providing small enterprises with loans from the fund in a fast and fair way without bureaucracy, promoting employers preserving sustainable employment, and hosting training for improving employees’ competencies, managing social welfares, directing state welfare services to targeted groups, increasing the minimum pension level to the country’s minimum subsistence level, renewing the wage system of employees working in retirement homes, increasing access to skills-based education for children growing up in orphanages, and promoting children moving out of orphanages as they reach the age of 18 are outlined in the resolution.
As the resolution was adopted, head of the standing committee Yo.Baatarbileg instructed Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh to present the standing committee with a report on the implementation of the resolution.