Disappointing is the interest of the business world in hiring unemployed beneficiaries of the Minimum Guaranteed Income (EEI), at a time when the economy is in a process of gradual recovery, but at the same time the members of this group themselves do not seem particularly willing to be employed. , referring to associations that choose the monthly social benefit.
More specifically, the response of the business world was meager, less than 100 jobs were offered, in the context of the operation of the incentive plan for the recruitment of EUE beneficiaries, in combination with a three-month training by the Human Resources Development Authority-HRDA. So few positions, when the goal of the Ministry of Labor was to employ 850 unemployed people.
The extensions to the call for the project from the Ministry of Labor did not finally have the expected results. Not that the design package was bad. Elsewhere, the plan provides that upon completion of the training, for which the employer has absolutely no cost, he is obliged to hire the unemployed for one year. For his employment the entrepreneur will receive a subsidy of up to 60% of labor costs with a maximum amount of € 6.000.
Also, another plan of the Ministry of Labor is proceeding at a slow pace and the results so far are considered unsatisfactory. This is a project that is also aimed at the beneficiaries of the EU and provides training in professions of the hotel and food industry (specialties of waitress, maid, bartender and receptionist). A plan that was tried to work last year by the Ministry of Labor, but without good results, as reluctance and technical difficulties existed both by hoteliers and by recipients of the EU. And in the present call of the project, as we are informed, the interest was below expectations. Nevertheless, the training programs are designed and to some extent work.
The beneficiaries of the EUSR are obliged to respond to the referrals of the Employment Services for employment and training, otherwise the Ministry of Labor may cut off their provision, if it is found that the reasons for the difficulties they raise are unfounded. The financial cost of the concession of the EU in 2015 amounted to € 220,5 million and in 2016 to € 221 million.
At a relevant level, in contrast to the above-mentioned plans, there was great interest from entrepreneurs and the unemployed in the use of incentive plans for the employment of the unemployed over the age of 50 and up to 25. It is estimated that about 1.000 unemployed people were hired through the projects, who will work for one year (until the end of 2017), with the employer receiving a subsidy for labor costs for only ten months.
Meanwhile, incentive plans for people with disabilities and people with chronic illnesses remain open until the end of the month. The Ministry of Labor aims to hire 200 people, but the plans stumble on the reluctance of entrepreneurs to hire people from these groups.
Source: philenews