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Bulgaria's social minister to try to boost employment scheme

Wed, Apr 22 2009 07:53 CET

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Bulgaria's social minister to try to boost employment scheme

Bulgaria;s Labour and Social Policy Minister Emilia Maslarova

Photo: Krassimir Yousekeseliev

The Bulgarian social ministry will try to expand its scheme to compensate workers on reduced hours with funds under the Human Resources Development operational programme of the European Union (EU) after government money for the project was snapped up.

The Cabinet plans to use EU money to train staff whose working hours have been cut due to weaker production. The finance should be enough to provide new skills for at least 33 600 people for about 72 million leva.

Trainees will receive monthly grants of 132 leva versus the 120 leva added to salaries under the current programme.

The extra payments will be made for up to five months provided that the company guarantees the employee will complete the course.

The monitoring committee of the operational programme will consider the proposal on April 28. If it gets the go-ahead, the new scheme will start this June, when the results of the 120 leva compensation will be seen. The government is yet to hand out the last round of 2.3 million leva, for which applications can be submitted by April 29.

Social minister Emilia Maslarova said yesterday that she will seek out additional financing for a scheme to pay a bottom salary to pensioners who look after their grandchildren.

Maslarova predicted the jobless rate will not cross the seven per cent point in April, saying that there were 25,072 people registered with the unemployment offices as at April 17, while 20 984 unemployed were helped to find jobs.

Source: Dnevnik.bg

 

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