Promoting employment during the Covid-19 period
Yesterday, the Decision no. 608, dated 29.07.2020 of the Council of Ministers “On the procedures, criteria and rules for the implementation of the employment promotion program through the employment of unemployed persons as a result of Covid-19“, was amended by Decision no. 699 dated 10.09.2020 “For a change in the Decision no. 608, dated 29.07.2020, of the Council of Ministers, “On the procedures, criteria and rules for the implementation of the employment promotion program through the employment of unemployed persons, as a result of Covid-19” through which, it is intended to support the unemployed jobseekers, who have become such as a result of the closure of business activity, in implementation of laws and bylaws, to prevent the spread of pandemic in conditions of natural disaster.
Through salary financing and mandatory social contributions, this program promotes job creation and supports traders and trading companies in the recovery process. The employment program provides employment in periods of 4, 8 or 12 months, depending on the profile and needs of the jobseeker according to the vacancy.
For the four-month employment program, the program subsidizes salary financing in the amount of 100% of the national minimum wage for 2 (two) months for all program participants, compensated in the first and fourth month of the contract as well as mandatory social and health contributions (part of the employer’s contribution), calculated on the basis of the national minimum wage. For the eight-month employment program, salary financing is subsidized in the amount of 100% of the national minimum wage, for 4 (four) months for all program participants, compensated in the first, second, seventh and eighth month of the contract. as well as mandatory social and health contributions. As for the 12-month employment program, the program subsidizes the costs of financing compulsory insurance (contribution of the employer and the employee) at the rate of 100%, calculated on the basis of the national minimum wage.
Beneficiary jobseekers are all unemployed jobseekers who have become unemployed as a result of COVID-19 from March 10, 2020 to June 23, 2020, registered by the General Directorate of Taxation and registered in the employment office, as well as those who declare that they have been employed, but are not registered in the General Directorate of Taxes and are registered in the employment office. The program is implemented in accordance with the individual needs of the unemployed jobseeker to integrate into the labour market and the individual plan for his employment.
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