24.08.2022

THE BUSINESS CAN INCLUDE ANOTHER 860 UNEMPLOYED AND EMPLOYED PEOPLE IN TRAININGS

There is still an opportunity for employers to receive financial support from the Employment Agency in order to secure personnel with the necessary professional training. In the labor offices, there are free funds from the state budget for funding trainings, including professional, dual or for key competencies of nearly 860 unemployed and employed persons, who will be provided with training requested by employers.

Thus, the Employment Agency continues to provide incentives to employers who assist unemployed persons to acquire professional qualifications necessary for employment with them. Opportunities for financial support are also available for businesses organizing training for their employed staff to acquire new key competencies.

One possibility is according to Art. 63 of the Employment Promotion Act. Through it, employers can request specific vocational training that job applicants must undergo before being appointed for at least a 6-month period to the respective jobs. The training of the unemployed is financed 100% from the state budget, and for the duration of the training, the students receive a daily stipend, and those living outside of the place where the training takes place - funds for intercity transport.

The other option is aimed at micro, small and medium-sized enterprises that wish to train their employed staff in new skills and competences. For them, the state provides half of the funds necessary for training.

In both forms, the employer chooses the training organization himself.

Together with her, they jointly form the training schedule, conduct selection of the unemployed persons to be trained and subsequently assigned to work, as well as determine the most suitable training program for the acquisition of new competences by those working in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

In the past few months alone, 354 employed persons have already acquired new competencies, and 52 unemployed persons have joined vocational training with the aim of starting work in the acquired specialty.

The second form of promoting the qualification of unemployed persons is the already popular "dual training".

Through it, the Employment Agency implements another type of support for the acquisition of professional knowledge and practical skills by the unemployed. The dual system of training is professional training that takes place in parallel - in a real working environment under the guidance of a mentor and in a training institution from the system of professional education and training. Thus, the Employment Agency incentivizes employers to provide on-the-job training by paying a monthly basic wage allowance to each employed unemployed person and their mentor. Financial support is provided for the duration of the studies, but for no more than 18 months.

In addition, for each person, the costs of the training institution that conducts the training in the acquired profession are covered. Currently, 125 unemployed persons are included in this form of parallel acquisition of professional knowledge and practice, combining work and training.