The Unemployment Insurance Fund received 17 notices of collective redundancies between October 1 and November 4. However, Lauri Kool, the PR adviser of the Fund, emphasizes that this is not the final number, because these statistics do not include those not collectively layd off.
Hyperinflation and economic uncertainty are the main reasons why it is better to have a moratorium on tax at the moment, Arto Aas, head of the Employers' Confederation (Tööandjate Keskliit) and member of the supervisory board of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (Töötukassa) says. Health and Labor Minister Peep Peterson's (SDE) goal of a tax increase is therefore not justifiable, Aas told ERR's radio news.