What does sunshine employment action mean?

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the Ministry of Education jointly issued the Notice on Launching Sunshine Employment Action for College Graduates from Poor Workers' Families, requiring trade unions and education departments at all levels to actively respond to the impact of the current international financial crisis on the employment of college graduates and promote the employment of college graduates from poor workers' families. The circular clearly gives priority to providing internship training and employment recommendation for college graduates from families with difficult employees, and gives employment subsidies to college graduates from families with financial difficulties after enjoying preferential policies of the state to ensure that job hunting and employment are not affected by economic difficulties.

The notice pointed out that the current international financial crisis is still spreading, which has a great impact on the employment of college graduates and the lives of employees with difficulties. Doing a good job in the employment of college graduates from poor families is of great significance for helping poor families get rid of poverty and become rich, solving the most concerned, most direct and most realistic interests of workers and staff, safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, maintaining the basic stability of the national employment situation and promoting stable and rapid economic development.

The circular requires that trade unions at all levels and education departments should cooperate closely, go deep into colleges and universities, go deep into the families of employees with difficulties, and comprehensively find out the basic situation of college graduates from families of employees with difficulties who have not been employed in recent years and previous years; All local colleges and universities' Federation of Trade Unions strengthen cooperation with the Federation of Trade Unions in the places of origin, study and determine the target and number of employment assistance with the local education department according to the files of employees with difficulties and students in autumn, establish employment assistance files, and study and formulate the implementation plan and assistance measures of Sunshine Employment Action according to their majors, employment intentions and difficulties, so as to ensure the smooth employment of college graduates from families with difficulties.

The circular stressed that trade unions and education departments at all levels should give full play to their respective resource advantages, make full use of self-run or jointly run employment skills training bases and internship bases for college graduates, and give priority to arranging college graduates with family difficulties to participate in internship practice activities before leaving school. Trade unions at all levels should give full play to the advantages of extensive contact with enterprises, closely combine the needs of employers, actively provide targeted employment skills training services for them, help them obtain corresponding vocational qualification certificates through vocational skills appraisal, and give vocational skills appraisal subsidies to qualified graduates.

The circular requires that trade unions and education departments at all levels should extensively open up employment channels and strive to help achieve employment. It is necessary to give full play to the role of college employment guidance service centers, labor union assistance centers and employment agencies, and provide employment information for college graduates with family difficulties through a series of employment service activities such as online recruitment, special recruitment, supply and demand fairs, and employers entering the campus, and give priority to recommending employment. Trade unions at all levels should make full use of resources such as large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, model workers, socially caring enterprises and government public welfare posts, strengthen communication and coordination with high-tech parks and pioneer parks, and encourage college graduates from poor families to find jobs. Actively encourage and support college graduates with family difficulties to achieve employment in the form of collective or individual self-employment, strengthen their entrepreneurship guidance and services, and provide them with one-stop services such as entrepreneurship training, policy consultation, project development, entrepreneurship incubation, microfinance, entrepreneurship guidance and follow-up services.

The circular also requires that trade unions and education departments at all levels actively promote and supervise the implementation of government support policies for college graduates from poor families in tuition compensation and student loan compensation, employment training and vocational skills appraisal subsidies, social insurance subsidies, public welfare post subsidies, entrepreneurial loans and tax incentives. For college graduates from workers' families who still have financial difficulties after enjoying the preferential policies of the state, the local trade union of the university and the trade union of the students' origin should strengthen coordination, and take out subsidies from the help funds to subsidize the transportation, training, accommodation, employment introduction and other expenses in the process of job hunting. And through the joint distribution of trade unions and universities, and the distribution of trade unions in students' places of origin, the funds will be distributed to students in time to ensure that their job hunting and employment will not be affected by economic difficulties. Education departments at all levels and colleges and universities should also raise funds and provide employment assistance to other college graduates with financial difficulties with reference to the subsidy standards of trade unions, so that every college graduate from a difficult family can successfully complete their studies and achieve employment.