19.08.2022
LABOR OFFICES WITH PREFERENCES FOR EMPLOYERS AND THE UNEMPLOYED
Financial support to employers and registered unemployed is offered by the Employment Agency through its "Labor Office" Directorates from August 17, the agency announced.
This becomes possible after the previous week the Acting Minister of Labor and Social Policy Lazar Lazarov approved a redistribution of funds between programs and measures to promote employment from the National Employment Action Plan for 2022.
The diverted funds can subsidize the employment of nearly 3,100 unemployed persons, including about 450 unemployed with permanent disabilities, 840 long-term unemployed, 430 unemployed over the age of 50, 300 young people for a period of 3 to 24 months, depending on the program or measure , in whose scope and target group they fall.
One part of the preferences is aimed at employers who have announced vacancies in the labor offices. They can receive funding if they approve a person (representative of a target group) from among the targeted registered unemployed under a program or measure for which the employment office has free funds for a new contract.
The Employment Agency also provides financial support to stimulate the mobility or entrepreneurship of unemployed persons. They can receive funds for daily expenses incurred for intercity transport to and from the workplace, as well as for housing and other expenses when starting work in a settlement more than 50 km from their place of residence.
Starting your own business can be supported on the basis of an approved business project by receiving at once the due cash benefits in case of unemployment or reimbursement of expenses incurred up to BGN 4,000 for starting the business. In both measures, other services accompanying the launch are also provided.
Each employment office has funds under part of the programs and measures providing preferences to employers or the unemployed. Current opportunities to apply for them are announced on the website of the Employment Agency https://www.az.government.bg/bg/, under the heading "Funding announcements by region". Employers apply by submitting only a request-specification for a vacant position and a declaration according to a model and are approved in the order they are received until the financial resource under the relevant program or measure is exhausted.
The free funds are also announced on the information board in every Labor Office in the country, where you can get complete information about the possibilities, procedures and conditions for granting the preferences.
The proposed toolkit includes a wide variety of period, type and amount of subsidization, and the specific parameters of financial incentives under individual programs and measures are determined in the annually approved National Employment Action Plan.
LABOR OFFICE DIRECTORATE - BERKOVITSA
Notifies the employers from the municipalities of Berkovitsa and Varshets that it has financial means for concluding contracts for the use of programs and promotional measures for employment and training and training of adults under the Employment Promotion Act (EPA) in August 2022, as follows:
National program "Assistance for retirement" BGN 15,447.
Training of persons under Article 63, Paragraph 1, Item 1. of the EPA, in accordance with Art. 63 of regulations for implementation of EPA (to acquire a professional qualification from unemployed persons) BGN 1,278
Training of persons under Article 63, Paragraph 1, Item 3. of the EPA, in accordance with Art. 63 of regulations for implementation of EPA (for the acquisition of Key Competences of employed persons for employers - "micro-" and "small" enterprises) BGN 423.
Training of persons under Article 63, Paragraph 1, Item 3. of the EPA, in accordance with Art. 63 of regulations for implementation of EPA (for the acquisition of Key competences of employed persons with employers - "medium" enterprises) BGN 170.
