一、工人待岗期间,可以领取失业保险吗?如果不能领取,单位应该发放生活补助吗?老于所在的化工厂引进了一条新的生产线,设备改造期间,工人在家待岗,厂里不发工资。老于向工厂领导要求按规定发放生活补助,可厂领导说工厂资金紧张,没钱发放补助。双方为此发生纠纷,多次协商没有结果,老于找到街道调委会进行咨询:工人待岗期间,可以领取失业保险吗?如果不能领取,单位应该发放生活补助吗?答:《失业保险条例》第十四条 Will the workers receive unemployment insurance? If they can not receive the subsidy, should the unit pay the living allowance? The old chemical plant has introduced a new production line. During the equipment reform, the workers are waiting for their job at home and no wages are paid to the factory. The old leadership to the factory requirements issued by the living allowance, can plant leadership said the factory funds are tight, no money subsidies. The two sides for this dispute, the negotiations failed to find the result, the old found the streets Commission for consultation: the workers waiting to be laid-off period, you can receive unemployment insurance? If you can not receive, the unit should be paid living allowance? A: “Unemployment Insurance Ordinance” Article XIV