Greece Hatzidakis Programs Tender

Start of business grant applications for 4000 jobs - The program is for the unemployed over 30 with an emphasis on womenThe following announcement was issued by the Press Office of the Ministry of Labor and Social AffairsThe planning of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and OAED for the creation of 86000 jobs in 2022 which was presented to the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last week is entering the implementation trajectory.From Monday January 17 the submission of applications for the first of the 11 new employment programs of OAED that will run this year and concerns the subsidy of companies for the employment of 4000 unemployed people aged 30 and over with emphasis on women in the Most Developed Regions of the country based on the criteria of the European Commission and more specifically in the Regional Units of the Western Sector of Athens Western Attica and Piraeus and the Region of the South Aegean. Applications will be submitted until February 17 at 1500.In this context the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakis and the Governor of OAED Spyros Protopsaltis visited the Greek food industry ELVIDA FOOD SA. based in Peristeri has an export orientation and employs 14 employees who are beneficiaries of previous OAED programs many of whom are highly qualified graduates.Messrs. Hatzidakis and Protopsaltis met with employees who found work in the company through the programs who expressed satisfaction with their cooperation with OAED and the positive outcome for them especially given that some of them did not have high expectations that they would find a job. through the Organization and for this they were also looking for work through other channels. The employees drawing from their experience so far also made suggestions for the improvement of the design of the new programs of OAED in the direction of simplification and acceleration of the procedures. The management team of the company for its part pointed out that the programs of OAED facilitated the recruitment especially during the difficult period of the pandemicThe Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakis statedThe programs that will create 86000 new jobs through OAED this year have already started to be implemented as the submission of applications for the first of them begins. 4000 new jobs for the unemployed over 30 with an emphasis on Attica. In the company that we came with the OAED Commander we had the pleasure to meet with employees who were previously unemployed and found work thanks to OAED programs. We found that they are satisfied with this development and of course with the help of OAED. They made some remarks on how the work of the Organization can be improved. Obviously we take these remarks seriously but the unemployed must also take OAEDs effort very seriously because it may seem much more useful than they think.The Commander of OAED Spyros Protopsaltis statedDuring the pandemic OAED created 50000 new jobs. Today we had the opportunity to meet people who are examples of the recruitments we mentioned. These are our fellow citizens who managed to find a job through the work subsidy programs of the Organization. It was very encouraging to hear them talk about the great opportunity given to them through the programs and efforts they made to reintegrate into the labor market and to see the tangible results of OAEDs active employment policies. In this context we are activating another program 4000 new jobs for the unemployed aged 30 and over with an emphasis on women and a subsidy that exceeds 8000 euros on an annual basis. Program informationThe program with a budget of 26 million euros has a duration of 12 months and is aimed at companies that have not reduced their staff in the quarter before the application and have not received funding from state aid over 200000 euros in the previous three years current year and two previous ones.Beneficiaries are unemployed people aged 30 and over registered in the OAED register for a period of at least one month during their appointment by the relevant Employment Promotion Center KPA2.The amounts of the salary subsidy and insurance contributions for the employment of the unemployed in new full-time positions are as follows 466.5 monthly 5598 per year for the unemployed aged 30-49 559.8 monthly 6717.6 per year for the unemployed aged 50 and over 606.45 monthly 7277.4 per year for the long-term unemployed aged 30 and over 653.1 monthly 7837.2 per year for the long-term unemployed aged 50 and over 699.75 monthly 8397 per year for unemployed women aged 30 and overIncludes Christmas and Easter gifts and holiday allowances.The companies will submit their application exclusively electronically through the State Aid Information System PSKE of the Ministry of Development Investment httpwww.ependyseis.grmis . Then the labor consultants of OAED will nominate candidates to the company according to the category of unemployed the specialty and the required qualifications and the company will choose among the candidates for the recruitment.The program is co-financed by Greece and the European Union European Social Fund through the OP. Human Resource Development Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020.