The Employment Aid Programme is to provide a new boost to employment in Gozo as 2 million euros are invested with the aim of assisting Gozitan employment. Applications for the Programme closed on the 12th of December.

Through the EAP, employers will receive 50% of the basic wage plus half the cost of the employer’s National Insurance contribution, for a maximum of 52 weeks, with employers of persons with disability receiving 75% of the basic wage cost.

The ETC said that most grants will commence on the 2nd of January 2014 and will cover four hundred and twenty three workers, employed with a hundred and seventy different employers.

The age of the prospective employees varies from 16-59 years. 220 are females and 203 are males. “This signifies that, thanks to the Government’s determination and to the cooperation being shown between the Ministry for Gozo, the Ministry for Education and Employment and the Parliament Secreteriat for EU funds, this Government is truly implementing what it believes in,” the Minister for Gozo said recently.

Photo – Employment Aid Programme for Gozo billboard at the Hal Far Industrial Estate, by Daniel Cilia.

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