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Subsidy amounts for a worker age 60 or older who is inactive during an emergency or quarantine (valid after the end of quarantine but continuing the emergency): 100%. of the calculated salary, but not more than 607 euros gross; 70 percent. of the calculated salary, but not more than 910.5 euros gross.
During downtime, an employee cannot be paid less than the monthly minimum wage if the full work time rate has been agreed.
After the end of quarantine and the emergency, or after the employee returns from downtime, the employer can continue to apply for 6 months. subsidies for the same employee’s salary: 100% in the first and second month, 50% in the third and fourth month, 30% in the fifth and sixth month. In all cases, the maximum limit is 607 euros gross.
This proposal is part of a plan developed by the Ministry of Social Security and Labor for senior citizens who may have been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Other measures include funding for an emotional helpline for older people, digital literacy training for older people, more intensive and targeted service delivery in municipalities, referral of NGOs and volunteers to work with older people.
What’s New in Job Search Benefits and Subsidies:
It is proposed that employers be able to declare downtime and request subsidies from the Employment Service after the end of quarantine, but in case of an emergency. In this case, it is both 90 and 70 percent. wage subsidies when the employee is declared inactive and is paid at least the minimum wage, as well as subsidies for employees over 60 years of age. This takes into account the possibility that not all employers can provide full capacity to employees after the end of quarantine. This means that the term to receive subsidies is extended.
It is proposed to allow employers to choose which subsidies to receive when employing unemployed people supported by the Employment Service: disabled, long-term, young or old unemployed and the like. In the absence of quarantine, these workers are generally paid 75%, 60%. or 50 percent. depending on the target group (such subsidies have been around for a long time). And with the help of quarantine, reductions of 100-50-30 percent are offered every two months. employee benefits. The employer could choose a more beneficial option.
It is proposed to advance the payment of the temporary job search benefit to the unemployed registered in the Employment Service, not for 6 months. after quarantine, but 6 months. since the entry into force of the law. In addition, it is proposed that the temporary job search subsidy is not less if a person receives some form of pension or social security benefit, social assistance benefit, state pension, annuity and the like. In other words, when a person receives a sickness benefit or a state pension, the job search benefit will not be € 42 but € 200.
The goal is to ensure that people receive a temporary job search allowance as soon as they become unemployed, and not when their severance pay term expires from the employer who fired them. The same would apply when a person applies for the normal unemployment social security benefit, which is due when the person has accumulated at least 12 months of unemployment social insurance in the last 30 months. Such an amendment is proposed because, in some cases, employers agree to pay dismissal compensation to those made redundant, but it is not paid immediately.
All these amendments will come into force if they are approved by the Seimas and signed by the President.
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