Employers to receive subsidies to employ persons with disabilities in Moldova

Chisinau, 8 July /MOLDPRES/ - Employers will receive subsidies for the employment of people with disabilities. The measures are part of two programmes on the facilitation of employment of jobless persons in need of additional support for employment and were launched by the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry and National Employment Agency (ANOFM).    

Data put out by the aforementioned ministry shows that the two programmes will be implemented during six months as pilot projects and provide for the subsidization of employers for the creation or adaptation of one job for people with disabilities. The programmes’ beneficiaries will be persons aged between 18 and 35 years, from the categories subjected to the risk of social exclusion, including disabled people.    

Attending the event, Health, Labour and Social Protection Minister Ala Nemerenco said that the programmes were absolutely necessary, given that there are on the labour market people who need support on behalf of state’s institutions at employment. “These two active measures fit into a string of actions scheduled in the law on employment and unemployment insurance, as well as in the national strategy of labour force employment for the 2017-2021 years. The measures’ goal is to reintegrate persons from the categories subjected to risk of social exclusion, promote the employment of persons with disabilities, who presently remain practically out of the labour market, as well as to strengthen the cooperation between employers and ANOFM,” Nemerenco noted.    

Within the programmes, employers creating or adapting a job for people with disabilities will benefit from 50-per cent compensation of the costs needed for the creation or adaptation of job and the size of the subsidy will not exceed the quantum of ten average monthly salaries on the economy for each job created or adapted.

The pilot programmes will be carried out with the financial and methodological support of the International Labour Organization, which has provided 150,000 dollars to this end.