Until Friday, February 11 and time 15:00 will be submitted applications for thesecond cycle of the action: business grant program for the employment of unemployed people aged 30 years and older in regions in transition (MET), with emphasis on women, as announced by the OAED.

Specifically, the 12-month program subsidizes the hiring of 5,000 unemployed people in the Regions:

• of Western Macedonia
• Mainland Greece
• Ionian islands
• Peloponnese
• North Aegean
• Crete

The amounts of the salary subsidy and insurance contributions are as follows:

• €466.5 per month (€5,598 per year) for unemployed people aged 30-49
• €559.8 per month (€6,717.6 per year) for unemployed people aged 50 and over
• €606.45 per month (€7,277.4 per year) for the long-term unemployed aged 30 and over
• €653.1 per month (€7,837.2 per year) for long-term unemployed aged 50 and over
• €699.75 per month (€8,397 per year) for unemployed women aged 30 and over

Businesses submit their application exclusively electronically through the State Aid Information System of the Ministry of Development & Investments at: http://www.ependyseis.gr/mis. Then, the labor advisers of the PES they will indicate candidates to the company, according to the unemployed category, specialty and required qualifications and the company will choose among the candidates for the recruitment.

A necessary condition is that the company has not reduced its staff in the three months prior to the application and has not received funding from state aid of more than 200,000 euros in the previous 3 years (current and two previous). The grant includes the corresponding Christmas and Easter gifts and leave allowances.

PES program budget

The program is total budget of 32,000,000 euros. It is co-financed by Greece and the European Union ( European Social Fund ). Co-financing is provided through the Operational Programme "Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020".

For the Public Call and for more information, interested parties can visit the OAED website at: www.oaed.gr.