PM Plenkovic: Subsidized salaries scheme to continue for select industries only

NEWS 02.09.202116:43 0 komentara
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The subsidized salary program, introduced to combat the effects of the Covid pandemic, would be kept in September for businesses in the catering industry, the event industry, passenger transport, and travel agencies. In all other sectors, the support - which amounted to 4,000 kuna (€534) per employee per month - would cease, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Thursday in a government session.

“All other businesses are more or less going back to normal,” Plenkovic said, adding that in case the need for subsidies emerges in some other sectors, “the authorities would consider the matter.”

“The government is set to turn from the job-keeping to job-creation measures, whereby the employment schemes will be bolstered with 500 million kuna (€67 million), and in 2022 the allocation for this purpose will be 1.5 billion kuna (€200 million),” he added.

The government’s job-keeping scheme, including measures such as subsidized salaries and salary contributions relief, have cost the government 18 billion kuna (€2.4 billion), Plenkovic said.

Nearly half of all workers in Croatia were covered by these programs, meaning about 700,000 out of 1.59 million Croatians in employment, and 92 percent of all companies operating in Croatia were covered by some form of support.

“As a result, there are now 52,000 more jobs in Croatia compared to 2020, and 6,000 more than in 2019,” Plenkovic said.

(€1 = 7.49 kuna)

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