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Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and Labor Minister Giannis Vroutsis made announcements on the progress of the implementation of the recently announced support measures and on the recent announcement by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for support for vulnerable households.
The Ministers of Finance and Labor announced new emergency measures to support workers and companies. The main announcement concerns emergency help for those who receive the minimum guaranteed income.
Extraordinary Help – How to Calculate
The emergency grant will be received by more than 480,000 people from 256,000 households. As announced, the allocation amounts will start from 200 euros and it will increase depending on the composition of the household.
For each additional adult member, the extraordinary allowance will be increased by 100 euros, while for each minor member of the household will be added additionally 50 euros.
Subsidy 800 euros – Terms and payments
According to the Minister of Labor, Giannis Vroutsis, for the 800 euro subsidy, employers and employees (only employees applying for the first time) from closed businesses Applications must be submitted by November 24th. The government’s goal is for the allocation amount to be paid in November.
In terms of companies affected Applications for a subsidy of € 800 must be submitted before December 7. “Our goal is to pay employee compensation gradually until the end of December,” said Mr. Vroutsis.
What will be applied to the Christmas gift
According to Mr. Vroutsis, “the Christmas gift to the employees will be calculated on the basis of the actual salary paid and will be paid by the companies-employers on 12/21 according to current legislation”.
The proportion of the gift corresponding to the days in which the employees’ contract was suspended or the employees had adhered to the “COOPERATION” program will be paid by the State directly to the employees through the “PS. INSTRUMENTS”.
Extraordinary allowance for lawyers, mechanical economists
According to a provision of the draft law of the Ministry of Labor, the Minister of Labor, who is joining the Parliamentary Commissions today, “provides for the provision of extraordinary and unique financial assistance to lawyers, engineers and economists affected by the effects of the economic crisis. due to the pandemic. The heading of this extraordinary aid will be covered by the contributions in favor of the unemployment sector of the aforementioned scientists “.
Extension of unemployment benefits: extraordinary long-term unemployment benefit
Regarding unemployment benefits, Giannis Vroutsis stated:
“A few days ago the ministerial decision to extend the ordinary unemployment benefits for two months was signed, which expired in September, October, November and December. Payment to the beneficiaries of the amount corresponding to the two-month extension will begin on Friday 11/20. This measure affects 123,000 unemployed and its cost is estimated at 100 million euros.
In addition, at the end of the week the ministerial resolution will be signed for the extraordinary economic allocation of 400 euros to the long-term unemployed, whose payment will be made as soon as possible. More specifically, this extraordinary financial aid will affect 130,000 long-term unemployed and is estimated at a total of 52 million euros.
At the same time, OAED is running 7 open programs for 38,600 new jobs, with subsidy rates of 60-100% of salary and insurance contributions. The salary and non-salary subsidies include the corresponding subsidy for Christmas, Easter, holidays in the private sector ”.
100,000 jobs program and “COOPERATION”
Regarding the Open Program of 100,000 new subsidized jobs that “runs” from 1the In October, Mr. Vroutsis pointed out that “the employment contracts of employees in companies-employers that are subsidized by the Program and their operation is suspended by state order, may be suspended.”
The employment contracts of the aforementioned employees, he added, “will be extended for a period equal to that of the suspension, when and if these companies reopen. On the other hand, the employment contracts of subsidized employees in companies-employers affected by KAD will not Finally, the company-employers that have requested the inclusion of their employees in the COOPERATION program, in order to present a declaration of suspension of work for these employees, must modify their original requests in the COOPERATION Program ”.
Annual leave transfer
Likewise, an amendment that will be presented in the coming days to the bill of the Ministry of Labor provides for the possibility of transferring the regular annual leave of employees to the next year.
In particular, according to Giannis Vroutsis, “employees whose employment contracts have been suspended since March 2020 and continue to be continuously suspended or are periodically suspended until December 31, 2020 can transfer all or part of the balance of the leave regular annual for the year 2020, in the following year and specifically until June 30, 2021. “
In addition, it was announced that 483,335 beneficiaries of the guaranteed minimum income will receive double what they receive for the month of December. Among other things, the ministers announced that the mandatory rent reduction will continue and that a new decision will be issued tomorrow that will compensate 50% of the “loss” for the owners.
The new measures also include suspension of payments by borrowers and inclusion in the “Puente” program.
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