Lost job during pandemic? ESIC to provide unemployment benefits till June 2022

The benefits offered by ESIC are aimed at providing financial support to workers coping with job losses in a tough economical situation. 

New Delhi: The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has announced the extension of unemployment benefits for industrial workers who lost their jobs amid the pandemic for one more year.  ESIC had earlier announced that the agency was to provide benefits till 30 June 2021. However, ESIC has now extended the timeline till 30 June 2022. The benefits offered by ESIC are aimed at offering financial support to workers coping with job losses in a tough economical situation.  The decision was taken in a board meeting of ESIC. Amarjeet Kaur, a board member of the ESIC, said that the decision will benefit ESIC subscribers who lost jobs. “ But there is a strong belief that the number of workers getting retrenched during the covid-19 period is not being reported transparently and the ESIC need to step up here," he was quoted as saying by Livemint.