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Ásmundur Einar Daðason, Minister of Social Affairs and Children, has signed a regulation regarding the December bonus payment to jobseekers who are insured within the unemployment insurance system.

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The Directorate of Labour offers an additional 100% grant for Icelandic course this fall semester.  

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As of the 5th of October, all Directorate of Labour service centers will be closed due to the COVID-19 virus.This due to security measures in place to ensure the payment of unemployment benefits to jobseekers.

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The Directorate of Labour will refund in full (100%) one Icelandic course for each jobseeker this fall semester.

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Directorate of Labour Service Centers closed from the 31th of July.

The Directorate of Labour’s service centers will re-open from either the 30^th of June or the 6^th of July, or upon the completion of the employees’ summer leave.

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Job seekers, please be informed that if you are to continue to be registered on unemployment benefits alongside reduced employment ratio in May, you are required to confirm this in My Pages between the 20^th and 25^th of May.

The labour market in April 2020

The Directorate of Labour directs to job seekers in reduced employment ratio that they are required to deregister from the unemployment registry if their employment has been terminated and/or if they are returning back to  previous employment ratio. 

The Directorate of Labour has received instructions from the Minister of Social and Children’s Affairs to deviate from the general age requirements of the Unemployment Insurance Act when applying for unemployment benefits alongside reduced employment ratio.

Today april 7th,  we are paying out unemployment benefits alongside reduced employment ratio for the second half of the month of March.

Registered unemployment was 5,0% in February 2020 and increased from 4,8% in January and up from 3,1% in February 2019. There were in average 9.162 unemployed in February 2020 or up with 354 from January 2020.

Due to the unusual circumstances that have arisen, including heavily increased work loads at The Directorate of Labour, is evident that application processing periods will increase significantly.

The Directorate of Labour will pay benefits due to reduced employment ratio on the 7^th of April 2020