Workers who have been on temporary unemployment for longer than two months due to the coronavirus will get an additional premium of €10 per day. Around 400,000 workers have been temporarily unemployed for more than two months. Recent numbers from social secretariat SD Worx show that 14% (or one in seven) of private sector workers were temporarily unemployed for at least one day in November.
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