Re-program The program
The program aims to create new jobs by subsidizing part of the wage and non-wage costs, corresponding to the amount of insurance contributions, as a basis for calculating the remuneration shall correspond to the height of the minimum basic salary as defined in each case by the EGSSE, private companies as an incentive for the recruitment of 40,000 unemployed, full employment, with emphasis on youth 30 years old and in specific groups of unemployed, which are as follows:
- unemployed who are currently near retirement and who are less up to 1,500 days of insurance or up to 5 years for the age limit for establishing the minimum pension age of IKA
- women long term unemployed, over 45 and unemployed women over 50
- Large families / Ness and triteknoi / Ness
- single mothers
The program is aimed at private businesses and general employers in the private sector, giving priority to small businesses employing 50 people at the time expressions of interest for inclusion in the program, particularly those working in innovative fields such as green economy. The aim is to enhance the net increase in jobs and employment, in addition to those that may arise within a project duly registered as belonging to another scheme.
Eligible beneficiaries and conditions for participation
1. Business
The beneficiaries are all private businesses and general private sector employers.
In order to benefit a private enterprise in the program should not be taken during the semester prior to application for the program to reduce staff due to termination. In case of dismissal, the company should have taken in place of the employee until the date of application for this program.
The above condition applies to companies that were created after the transfer or change of legal form or dissolution and restarting the same or another site with the same object of activity.
It includes:
- All companies are governed, in terms of recruiting staff from the provisions of Law 2190/94 (Gov. 28/A/03.03.1994) and Law 3812 (Gov. 234/A/28.12.2009).
- The nightclubs and agencies (Article 20 of n.2956/2001) for their employees who work for another employer (indirect employer).
- The provision of cleaning services and storage.
- Businesses involved in fisheries, aquaculture and coal, the primary production of agricultural products, companies engaged in resale to retailers or dealers, or classified as problematic.
- Individual companies for people who are married or related to first-degree relatives by blood or marriage to the businessman.
- The OE, EU, SA, and LTD for unlimited liability in OE and EU for members of the Board in SA, the partners in the LLC, and the wives and relatives of first degree by blood or marriage of such.
- Cooperatives for their members.
- When the subject of a business is complex and one of the items excluded from the program.
2. Unemployed
The recipient who will be hired by companies to join the program must:
- have the status of unemployed and unemployment possess a valid
- be Greek citizens or citizens of another EU Member State or are expatriates who have right of residence and employment in our country.
- have completed the standard form individualized approach and to agree on an individual action plan.
Unable to submit:
- For people in the last 12 months before the date of their inclusion in the program had worked in any way in the same undertaking or undertakings transferred or changed legal form or dissolve and reopened on the same or another site with the same subject activity, from which emerged a new successor company or affiliates.
- For people who are necessarily situated with N.2643/98.
Procedure for bringing
Companies wishing to join the program if there are empty seats, electronically submit a request for the Service, the CFR or KPA2 nearest area office of the company by selecting the relevant column.
If the company has branches, then the application will be submitted to the Agency, whose competence under the seat or branch will work with the grant staff.
The applications can be made through the CFR or CFR 2, where the operator has access to the Internet or through ADS.
Details of program implementation
1. After pre-approval inspection on the premises after the award decision by the competent Directorate of Administration, a pair of controllers to check the eligibility of the business program (running the business, reducing staff redundancy in the previous 6 months, etc. .). Here's approval decision by the Head of the Office of the enterprise is subject to the program, which shall be reported to the Social Security Branch, which owned the company headquarters.
2. Following the approval decision will be controlled directly from the official "manager" the availability of labor, under the conditions laid down for jobs requested by the company, informing the Head and all working directors of the Agency.
3. Through the process of registration of the unemployed in the system supply - demand, and after the procedure individualized approach and in line with the proposals contained in the individual action plans will be made against them in their companies by labor consultants Services in order to link between supply and demand.
4. After the approval decision, the company should proceed to recruit within thirty five (35) days from the approval decision. If no available labor application is in "waiting" period of seven (7) days after the end of thirty-five (35) days prior authorization. The intake recorded electronically by the company. If the positions which have requested is not remedied within that period are void.
5. After individualized approach to the unemployed, their nomination to the undertakings concerned and the latest recruit, the officer shall inform the system administrator that the application passes the stage of 'adoption' and completes the approval system.
Amount and duration of grant
A grant amount is defined as the amount the insurance contributions or part thereof, as calculated in the following year for all sectors of the primary insurance IKA and subsidiary ETEAM and insurance contributions or part thereof those who receive Social Security or syneisprattei for Agencies and Branches of Social Security.
For the employees, instead of ETEAM, secured other alternative funds as grant amount is defined as the amount the insurance contributions or part thereof for all branches of the main insurance IKA and insurance contributions or part those of the respective Ancillary Funds and insurance contributions, or part of those who receive Social Security or syneisprattei for Agencies and Branches of Social Security.
Also, as the grant amount specified in addition the amount of insurance contributions or part thereof, of Christmas and Easter gifts and grants permission for the months they paid.
The basis for calculation of rate of these grant funds are received actual gross earnings of employees / subsidized corresponding to the height of the minimum basic salary as defined each time by EGSSE.
The grant amount is calculated as a percentage of contributions (employers and employees):
a) for ordinary unemployed
- hundred percent (100%) for the first year
- seventy-five percent (75%) for the second year
- fifty percent (50%) for the third and
- twenty five percent (25%) in the fourth year
b) for youth and special groups of unemployed, as described in Article 1,
- hundred percent (100%) for the first and second year
- fifty percent (50%) for the third and fourth year
from each intake and attributed through open account billing IKA-OAED and the corresponding crediting of the employer, unless the grant amount, which represents insurance contributions or any part thereof, other auxiliary funds, paid directly to the company.
Likewise will be paid directly to employers grant amounts that met after the treatment of their complaints.
The duration of the grant specified in forty-eight (48) months.
After the expiration of the grant companies are committed to maintaining staff for twelve (12) months yet.
In the first quarter of each year, part of the stated total amount of subsidy is paid through credit lines with the previous year to an amount corresponding to the insurance contributions or part of these industries in kind, cash and professional risk of IKA paid IKA in cash and simultaneously credited o credit lines with evenly after the competent services of IKA transmit to the appropriate CFR or KPA2 statement with details of the assisted enterprises and insured persons who have benefited from the program.
