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It is proposed to reduce the maximum subsidy from the two minimum monthly salaries provided by the Council of Ministers (1,284 euros) to one and a half MMA (963 euros).
This amendment was approved by the Seimas Labor and Social Affairs Commission on Wednesday.
According to its president, the conservative Mindaugas Lingė, such a decision was determined by the financial possibilities of the state. According to him, the state budget for 2021 now provides for 180 million subsidies. euros.
“We have limited resources, we don’t know how long the quarantine will last. “We do not want the circle and the amount of subsidies and beneficiaries to maintain the possibilities of the state to avoid the explosion of the budgets and funds provided,” he said at the committee meeting on Wednesday.
These amendments to the Employment Law were registered by the conservatives Mindaugas Lingė and Mykolas Majauskas and the “peasants” Linas Kukuraitis and Tomas Tomilinas.
Vaidotas Kalinauskas, Head of the Social Security Division of the Ministry of Social Security and Labor, stated that the Ministry supports this proposal.
Starting next year, employers will be reimbursed the full (100%) salary accrued to the employee during downtime, but no more than 1.5 MMA. Subsidies will be paid one month after the end of the quarantine.
It is also proposed to continue to pay a job search allowance of EUR 212, but only to workers who worked in preventive companies before quarantine and were laid off. At the proposal of the members of the Seimas, they may request this benefit even if they have lost their job no earlier than three months before the announcement of the quarantine.
This applies to both the self-employed and those with an employment contract.
According to M. Lingė, those residents who have lost their job even before the first quarantine, in mid-December 2019, in January-February 2020, will also be able to apply for this benefit.
“Actually, it wasn’t because of quarantine that I lost my job, but for other reasons, but there were three months left before the first quarantine. These people unknowingly come looking for benefits and benefits, but they don’t really have a job. He could no longer find it due to the quarantine, “the head of the committee told BNS.
According to M. Lingė, there could be between 8 and 13 thousand such people.
The government has agreed that the job search subsidy should not be awarded to students, vocational school students who have registered with the Employment Service solely for the purposes of this subsidy.
According to the calculations of the Ministry of Social Security and Labor, in 2021 the subsidies amounted to 170.7 thousand. 202.2 million would be needed for downtime. 28.4 million euros. 35.5 thousand euros for job search benefits. people. Ms Lingė said that if the new amendment is approved, the number of the latter would increase by another 8,000.
The benefit would also be available to the self-employed who can no longer continue with their activities.
Unemployment topped 16 percent after the government quarantine in November.
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