The aim is to create 10,000 new full-time jobs in high unemployment pockets of the country, with priority in the Regions of Western Macedonia, Western Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaly, Central Greece, Central Macedonia and Epirus.
Beneficiaries are registered long-term unemployed aged 45 and over. Beneficiaries are private businesses and generally private sector employers who carry out regular economic activity.
Businesses submit online applications at gov.gr:
Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries of the action are private companies and generally private sector employers who carry out regular economic activity, with priority in the Regions of Western Macedonia, Western Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaly, Central Greece, Central Macedonia and Epirus.
Emphasis will be placed on companies active in the green and digital economy sectors. The companies participating in the action must comply with the legislation on the health and safety of workers and the prevention of occupational risk.
A necessary condition for the inclusion of a company in the action is that it has not reduced its staff during the last quarter before the date of submission of the application for inclusion (in calendar terms). As long as the number of staff at the start date of the audited quarter is the same as at the date of submission (regardless of whether there are changes in staff during this period), it is possible to include the company in the program.
The above condition of non-reduction of personnel must also be observed for the period from the date of submission of the application for inclusion until the date of issuance of the approving decision for the company’s inclusion in the program.
A reduction in staff during the quarter preceding the date of submission of the application is considered to be: a) the termination of the employment contract, b) the change of the employment status from full-time to part-time or rotating employment, c) voluntary departure at the initiative of the employer through programs to provide financial, mainly, incentives for voluntary exit, d) the voluntary departure which is considered as termination of contract, according to article 38 of Law 4488/2017 (A’ 137), e) the position of an employee on availability and f) the exercise of the right of withholding from the work of article 325 of the Civil Code In the cases from a) to d), the company, in order to join the program, must cover the reduction by the date of submission of the application for inclusion.
In the event that the company has made a reduction in staff, but has previously made a new employee hire, within the same month that the reduction has taken place, he can join the program. It is not considered a staff reduction during the three months preceding the date of submission of the affiliation application: a) the termination of an employment contract due to retirement, b) the termination of an employment contract of indefinite or definite duration (before its expiration) due to an important reason concerning the employee (lawsuit for a criminal act that affects or may affect his work), c) the termination of a fixed-term contract, d) imprisonment and death, e) voluntary departure, and f) the inability to renew the residence and access permit in the labor market of foreign workers.
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