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Minister of Finance and Economy, Delina Ibrahimaj, stated that the draft decision for employment promotion programs related to the youth guarantee scheme has been approved in this Thursday’s meeting of the Council of Ministers.
During a statement for the media outside the Prime Minister’s office, Ibrahimaj said that this program will be aimed at the training and employment of all young people in Albania between the ages of 15-29.
Ibrahimaj said that every young person in this age group, who has been without a job or an education program for at least 4 months, by offering them training programs through vocational training centers or a workplace.
Among other things, the minister underlined that this whole process will be supported by the funds of the state budget in cooperation with the funds of the European Union.
“Approval of the draft decision on employment promotion programs related to the youth guarantee scheme. We have been talking throughout this year and last year about the youth guarantee program, which will be aimed at the training and employment of all young people in Albania between the ages of 15-29. Specifically, the program will refer to this age group which has a higher unemployment than the general unemployment of the country and will be addressed by offering every young person who has at least 4 months without a job or a program education, offering training programs through vocational training courses or a job.
This whole process will be supported by state budget funds in cooperation with EU funds, and every young person who will complete a professional training program, for a period of up to 6 months, will be offered a job and this job will be paid for the first 3 months at 80% of the minimum wage with a reduced salary and for the second 3 months, it will last 6 months, it will be paid at 100% of the minimum wage.
All businesses that will employ a young person aged 15-29 who are part of this program will be paid 20% of the time of the person who will deal with the training of the young people and the young people will also be paid transport, up to the amount of 1600 ALL if they live more than 2 km away from the place of work or the place of professional training. This is a policy which is all in line with the policy that the Albanian government is undertaking to improve the conditions of the labor market, to have a better job offer, to increase the wages of employees, that is, to increase the standard of the job offer in the whole country”, she emphasized.
/abcnews.al
