The Employment Agency continues to accept documents on anti-crisis employment measures

19.05.2021

THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY CONTINUES TO ACCEPT DOCUMENTS ON ANTI-CRISIS EMPLOYMENT MEASURES

Consultancy Center - Berkovitsa provides summary information on the extension of a total of four measures to maintain employment, provide new employment and support families for the pandemic, implemented by the Employment Agency under the Operational Program "Human Resources Development". Additional funding provided by CMD № 182/07.05.2021 allows the measures to be implemented by the following deadlines:

  • the measure “Short-term employment support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic” to provide support to enterprises and self-insured persons whose economic activity is directly affected by the adverse impact of the state of emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the measure, employers are supported by providing compensation for part of the salary and the due tax and social security contributions at the expense of the insurer and the insured person in the amount of BGN 290.

The allocated additional funds amount to BGN 22 million for the preservation of 33,000 jobs in the most affected sectors "Hotels and restaurants", "Tourism" and "Transport". Documents for this measure will be submitted by 31.05.2021. So far, more than BGN 52 million have been transferred to 2,937 companies and self-insured from these sectors.

  • the program "Parents in employment", which provides babysitters to:

- Parents of children from 0 to 5 years of age, not enrolled in a nursery/kindergarten, as the parents have a job or employment or are self-employed/self-insured, but currently take care of their children and are not returned to work;

- Parents with many children - with three or more children under the age of 12 who have returned to work, with children attending crèches/kindergartens as well as school.

- Unemployed persons registered with the labor office who are parents of children from 0 to 5 years of age and are not registered in a crèche/kindergarten or large parents of children from 0 to 12 years of age attending a crèche/gardens as well as a school.

The allocated additional funds amount to BGN 23 million. Documents under the program will be available until May 31, 2021. Since its beginning, nearly BGN 48 million have been paid, and 7,162 parents and families have used or are currently using babysitter.

  • the measure "Keep me" to compensate workers from closed businesses with 75% of their insurance income. The submission of applications by employers continues until the end of June.

The allocated additional funds amount to BGN 25 million. Under this measure, over BGN 66 million have already been transferred for compensation and employment of 52,319 employees.

  • the measure "Employment for you", which helps employers to create new jobs and hire unemployed for up to 6 months, covering the minimum wage and social security contributions.

The allocated additional funds amount to BGN 50 million. So far, nearly 20,000 new jobs have been created under the measure. With the additional funds, another 11,000 jobs can be created. Under the measure, applications will be accepted until the financial resource is exhausted.

Consultancy Center - Berkovitsa reminds that until June 15, 2021 employers can apply for funds under the measure "60/40", implemented under the Council of Ministers № 151/2020, as amended with CMD № 93/2021. Under this measure, funds are paid for maintaining employment in the months of April and May 2021 to companies from almost all sectors of the economy, whose sales revenues have decreased by over 20% compared to the average revenues for 2019.

Detailed information on all measures to support and promote employment is published on the official website of the Employment Agency.