19.01.2023
NEW MEASURES ARE PROPOSED FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
Employers to request training for persons from disadvantaged groups in the labor market (full-time or part-time) that they will hire, as well as to provide a mentor to help them acquire/restore work habits and adapt to the work process, provides a new measure to promote employment. It is included in changes to the Employment Promotion Act uploaded for public consultation.
"Disadvantaged groups" are unemployed with lower competitiveness on the labor market, which include: unemployed youth up to the age of 29 (inclusive); long-term unemployed persons; unemployed persons with permanent disabilities; parents (adoptive parents) with children up to 4 years of age; served a prison sentence; unemployed over the age of 55; people with primary or lower education, or without professional qualifications.
Another change envisages expanding the range of unemployed people who can be employed in "green jobs". The accelerated development of the green transition makes it necessary to provide access to "green jobs" to all the unemployed, and not only to those with a registration duration of more than 6 months, it is written in the reasons for the project.
At the same time, the cancellation of inefficient measures will enable more efficient planning, allocation and use of state budget funds provided for active labor market policy.
It is proposed to change the sanction for people whose participation in subsidized employment is terminated by disciplinary dismissal. Instead of a ban on registration at the labor office, it is proposed that the sanction be a ban on participating in state-funded employment or training. In this way, these people will not be excluded from jobseekers, they will be able to use employment services, which will be a prevention for moving into the group of the economically inactive, as well as for participation in undeclared employment.
In addition, it is envisaged that the unemployed who have started work in subsidized jobs will remain registered as jobseekers. In this way, they will continue to use employment services, which increases their chance of finding a permanent job.
It is planned to reduce the sanction from 6 to 3 months for the exclusion from the register of unemployed persons with terminated previous registration. According to the reasons, a 6-month period is an unreasonably heavy sanction and leads to the loss of the right to compensation and to the termination of access to services, which significantly distances individuals from the labor market and subsequently makes it difficult to activate them.
The opportunities for jobseekers to use the regulated mediation services for referral to appropriate programs and measures for employment and training, referral to adult education and referral to a procedure for validation of professional knowledge, skills and competences in all "Labour Office" Directorates in the country, regardless of the place of registration.
The requirement for employers applying for subsidies under employment promotion measures to hire unemployed persons in workplaces for positions for which they have not terminated employment with workers in the last three months is cancelled.
Amendments are proposed in connection with the registration of the persons carrying out intermediary activity in employment, as well as the registration of enterprises providing temporary work. The bill stipulates that the registration certificates will be signed by the Executive Director of the Employment Agency, instead of the Minister of Labor and Social Policy.
The right to provide funds for representative clothing to the employees of the Employment Agency and its territorial divisions under employment law is regulated, which will create equality in working conditions between employees performing the same work.
