14.03.2024

HOW COMPANIES GET MONEY TO HIRE THE UNEMPLOYED

From March 8, the Employment Agency started accepting applications for the "Starting a job - Component 3 "Employment" project, which is part of a comprehensive package of measures aimed at the labor integration of unemployed and inactive persons with an emphasis on persons in a disadvantaged position.

A total of 14,400 people are expected to be employed under the project, and its duration is until the end of 2026, the agency announced.

Employers can now submit requests from 08:30 a.m. for the project in an electronic environment and within just one month - until 11:59 p.m. on 04/07/2024 (Sunday) inclusive. The electronic application that must be completed is available on the official website of the Employment Agency.

After the expiration of this one-month period, the Employment Agency will rank the requests in the order of their arrival and, if there is a remaining financial resource, the project will be open for applications for a new period, information about which will be published in due course.

The target groups that can be included in the project "Starting work - Component 3 "Employment" are inactive and unemployed persons, incl. inactive and unemployed persons in a disadvantaged position and inactive and unemployed persons with permanent disabilities (with an established degree of reduced working capacity/type and degree of disability 75% and over 75%).

The period of subsidized employment of the persons employed within the project is determined based on their belonging to one of the following categories:

- unemployed and inactive persons - for a period of up to 6 months;

- unemployed and inactive disadvantaged persons - for a period of up to 12 months;

- unemployed and inactive persons with permanent disabilities - for a period of up to 24 months.

Funds that will be reimbursed to project employers are in the form of unit costs (standard unit cost table). And employers who retain the employment of a person employed by them after the expiry of the relevant period of sustainable employment will receive additional one-time incentives in the form of a standard table per unit of expenditure.

Requests for vacancies can be submitted by employers from the real sector, incl. municipalities and municipal enterprises. In order to achieve the main goal of the project to the maximum extent, additional conditions have been set that must be met by the applicant employers in order to be approved for participation.

Thresholds of the maximum permissible number of vacancies that can be claimed by an employer will be applied under the project - depending on the percentage of registered unemployment in the municipality in whose territory the jobs are opened.

Employers and persons wishing to join the project "Starting a job - Component 3 "Employment" can get more detailed information in all labor offices in the country, as well as on the official website of the Employment Agency or here.