Along the same lines as the policies initiated in 1997 to broadcast teleworking as part of employment policies enabling to keep mothers active or to reinstate people far from the labour market, two new allowance programs - paid for by the EU - were launched. They aim at helping disabled people, young mothers or unemployed people to go back to work thanks too allocations awarded for wages and supply expenses. During the last four programs, which cost 1.6 billion Forints (that is 6.4 million euros), 3.048 new jobs were created. (Ref. 070800)
The Secretary of Labour and Social Affairs, Lamperth Mónika, and the president of the telework council, Simon Gábor, announced the launching of these two new programs last September 19. Telework represents 4% only in Hungary, that is 150.000 people, among which an important number of computer specialists. The main question remains that of access to new technologies, since, according to the KSH – the national statistics office – 24 homes out of 100 have internet in central Hungary, the most deve
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