Programs/instruments offered to employers by the Local Labor Office

Duration of period when support is available and characteristics of unemployed

Comments/Benefits for employers

1.

Training

max. 12 months.

(possible also abroad)

The training based on the agreement reached by the LLO, the training institution and the employer. Employer should be registered as a training company – institution. All the requirements connected with the training program are specified in the agreement.

2.

Internship/apprenticeship program - acquisition of practical skills by an unemployed person to perform work by exercising specific tasks in the workplace:

without signing an employment contract with the employer

district authority office (poviat starost) delegates the unemployed

agreement between the employer and starost (internship supervisor), approved by the Local Labor office

Duration:3-12 months;

Eligibility:

• the unemployed up to 25 years of age

• the unemployed under 27, high school graduates (note: within 12 months from the date on any document certifying high school completion)

Duration: 3-6 months:

Eligibility:

• long-term unemployed

• women who didn’t take on a job after child-birth

• the unemployed above 50 years of age

• the unemployed with no experience/with no qualifications /no high-school education

• the unemployed who (on their own) raise at least 1 child till it turns 18 years old

• the unemployed with disabilities

During the internship the unemployed receives scholarship and is entitled to 2 days off per every 30 calendar days of the internship

scholarship accident, pension and retirement insurance premiums is determined and paid by the district governor’s office

the intern/apprentice doesn’t hold an employee status and thus requires supervision of a competent tutor while performing his/her tasks

an internship application form is available: www.pup-wroclaw.pl

3.

2 forms of professional preparation for adults at workplace :

• no employment contract

• agreement between the employer, the district governor (starosta powiatu) and occasionally training company

• appointment of a tutor/mentor

• final certificate issuance (only if both forms are successfully competed)

• scholarship for participants; financed by Labor Fund

12-18 months of job-specific skills acquisition & vocational training (theory+practice+exam)

3-5 months of actual application of acquired knowledge & skills through work performance at a specific post

Eligibility:

• the unemployed up to 25 years of age

• both long-term unemployed or those who completed social contract or women who didn’t seek employment after birth giving

• the unemployed above 50 years of age

• the unemployed with no professional qualifications, experience or without high school education

• the unemployed raising on their own at least one child until it turns 18 years

• the disabled unemployed

…complete list provided upon request

During the preparation Local Labor Office pays the amount of money equal to a grant for the jobless. The agreement with unemployed person is signed by the LLO

Each employer taking on a trainee appointed by the LLO, will be eligible to receive a refund for the training costs (equivalent of 2% average monthly remuneration per each trainee per month)

Also, an employer will get a bonus for each participant that passed final exam (equivalent of PLN 400x months of training)

The exam expenses will be covered by the Labor Trust

The training institution will be reimbursed for preparation of theoretical part.

4.

Refunding (repayment) part of employment costs – “interventional employment”( form of public aid subsidies allocated for employees being either in a * particularly or **tremendously unfavorable labor market situation)

People:

• up to 25 (27 in case of university graduates) years;

• older than 50 years

• handicapped

• single parents raising at least one child till it reaches 18 years of age

• women who haven’t taken on a job after giving birth

The employee (either legal or natural person status) submits the interventional work employment application to the Local Labor Office and then the agreement is conclude between the employer and district governor (note: starosta powiatu)

5.

Refunding part of the equipment costs/upgrading of new workplace for the delegated(by LLO) unemployed; maximum aid =an average remuneration multiplied by six ; max. PLN 17 831,3 (this is a form of public aid compliant with the provisions of “de minimis” aid, granted by EU Commission)

The designated worker shall be employed full-time for 24 months

Maintaining the newly created workplaces for 24 months

In the event of agreement breach, the employer shall repay the whole refund within 30 days from receiving the payment order notification from the authorities (including interest rate accrued)

Legal basis for obtaining the refund is a written agreement between an employer and the district governor including the following liabilities:

• filing refund application with the competent authorities

• Note: if combined with other sources/forms of public aid granted in reference to the same eligibility costs, the total intensity/ scope of support cannot be exceeded

6.

One time reimbursement of the costs of social insurance premiums (constitutes a remuneration subsidy form of public aid meant for recruiting an employee being either in a * particularly or **tremendously unfavorable labor market situation)

• Refund not exceeding 300% of a minimal remuneration

• The employee in a particularly unfavorable situation & to be hired on the remuneration basis subsidy of public aid must be eligible to work continuously for a min. 12months and the employer can terminate contract only in case of breach of agreement/ default

• The employee in a tremendously unfavorable situation & to be hired on the abovementioned basis, must be eligible to work continuously for min.24months and with contract termination allowed in case of agreement breach.

Maximum gross public aid intensity for both employees in a particularly and tremendously unfavorable labor market situation cannot exceed 50% of eligibility costs.

This remuneration subsidy form of public aid regarding two categories of employees, can be granted provided the newly created job results in net increase of:

• Total number of the workers employed but this particular employer

• The number of employees with the status of those ”being in a particularly or tremendously unfavorably situation” /both cases in comparison with the median statistics within the past 12 months