Hungary: the government continues its efforts to develop telework as an insertion tool

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)