Procedure for providing compensation to employers for employment of registered unemployed

On February 10, the Cabinet of Ministers determined the procedure for providing compensation to employers for the employment of registered unemployed.

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What types of compensation are we talking about?

Compensation of the EU amount in the amount of not more than double the minimum insurance contribution for employment for a period of at least 2 years to persons who have additional guarantees in employment and have been in the status of registered unemployed for more than 1 month, namely:

• one of the parents or the person who replaces them and:
• has a dependent child (s) under the age of 6 years ;
• Raises without one of the spouses a child under the age of 14 or a child with a disability;
• keeps without one of the spouses a person with a disability since childhood (regardless of age) and/or a person with a disability of group I (regardless of the cause of the disability);
• orphans and children deprived of parental care;
• persons released after serving a sentence or forced treatment;
• persons who have 10 years or less before the onset of the right to a pension;
• persons who are 15 years old and who, with the consent of one of the parents or the person who replaces them, may, as an exception, be hired;
• persons in respect of whom the fact of deprivation of personal liberty as a result of armed aggression against Ukraine has been established, after their release;
• registered unemployed who have been in the status of registered unemployed for more than 6 months.

Duration of payment - 12 months for 2 years.
The amount of compensation cannot be more than 2948 UAH/month.

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Compensation of 50% of actual labor costs for employment for a period of at least 1 year at the direction of the employment center of persons who have been in the status of registered unemployed for more than 1 month, namely:

• persons with disabilities who have not reached retirement age;
• participants of hostilities specified in paragraphs 19-21 of Part 1 of Article 6 of the Law “On the Status of War Veterans, Guarantees of Their Social Protection”;
• persons who, before the onset of the right to a pension by age, have no more than 5 years left.

Duration of payment - 6 months.
The amount of compensation is not more than 6700 UAH/month.

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Compensation in the amount of 50% of the minimum wage for the employment of the following categories of registered unemployed:

• under the age of 25 years, who have a total insurance experience of not more than 12 months;
• under the age of 35 — for the first job;
• dismissed from temporary military or alternative (non-military) service — to the first place of work after such dismissal.

Duration of payment — no more than 6 months.
The amount of compensation — no more than 3350 UAH/month.

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Who is entitled to such compensation?

Employers who are business entities and employ the specified categories of persons.

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It does not apply to employers who are budgetary institutions or funds of compulsory state social insurance.