Socially handling unemployment. The Employment Initiative approved by the Council of Ministers should affect 750,000 people and represents a €480-million budget. Labor Minister Maria Helena Andre said that the 2009 fighting program (see our dispatch No. 081020) allowed saving jobs and preventing the pauperization of ailing workers.
er Maria Helena Andre said that the 2009 fighting program (see our dispatch No. 081020) allowed saving jobs and preventing the pauperization of ailing workers.
Supporting fixed-term contracts. Criticized because the previous Employment Initiative supported long-term employment, the government is now improving fixed-term systems. Businesses recruiting jobseekers (9 months without a job) with a fixed-term contract will see their social contributions cut by 50% (social security contributions) for t
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