SUPPORT FOR JOB CREATION

The support to job creation would have an impact on boosting employment of the unemployed persons in micro, small and medium enterprises, social enterprises pursuing primarily social objectives and reinvesting their profit in the realization of those objectives through the business operations, or investing in the community and civil (not-for-profit) organizations pursuing economic activities classified under the National Classification of Economic Activities to realize the objectives laid down in their Articles of Association.

Measure: Wage subsidies

Purpose of the measure

To support the employment of the unemployed persons who experience difficulties in entering the labour market

Target group

Unemployed persons registered with ESARNM who experience difficulties in entering the labour market:

long-term unemployed persons (over 12 months in the register, with priority assigned to persons with unemployment spells over 5 years)
young people up to 29 years of age
persons over 50 years of age
unemployed persons whose employment has been terminated during the COVID-19 pandemic
people who returned from abroad due to the COVID-19 crisis
beneficiaries of guaranteed minimum assistance
beneficiaries of unemployment benefit
persons who have the status of children without parents and parental care
victims of domestic violence
persons with disabilities
Roma women and women from other ethnic communities
persons belonging to the Roma ethnic community
persons who have resolved their status and obtained personal identification documents
single parents
parents of children with impaired development
parents of 3 or more children
parents of street children
convicted persons following their release from the penitentiary institution
homeless persons
persons who failed to complete secondary or lower education

Scope of the measure

Duration of the subsidy – 3, 6 or 12 months

MKD 19,000 per month as a wage subsidy for the employee for a period of 3, 6 or 12 months for employment of persons belonging to the target groups.

The employer may pay a higher salary to the employee.

The total financial support for one person within a period of 3 months amounts to MKD 57,000; for 6 months it amounts to MKD 114,000, and for 12 months it amounts to MKD 228,000.

The funds are paid as a single lump sum for the entire subsidy period, following the realization of the full-time employment, in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down in the Subsidy agreement.

Beneficiaries

Micro, small and medium enterprises, social enterprises, and civil (not-for-profit) organizations pursuing an economic activity.

New enterprises established under the Self-Employment Programme in 2020.

Unemployed persons

Manner of application

For employers:
- Public call/Notification, Application for participation and Request for job placement services.

For unemployed persons:

Notification, Search in the register of unemployed persons

For employers: The employer who recruits the unemployed person shall be obliged to retain the person in total employment of:

9 months for a subsidy of 3 months;
18 months for a subsidy of 6 months;
18 months for a subsidy of 12 months (for beneficiaries of guaranteed minimum assistance, unemployed persons whose employment has been terminated in the period following 11.03.2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Roma), and
30 months for a subsidy of 12 months.