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Employers can now receive subsidies for the employment of the unemployed. Payments are made by the Social Insurance Fund, which received 12 billion rubles from the budget for these purposes.
The spread of COVID-19 has led to the fact that many people were out of work in 2020. Enterprises, especially in the field of tourism, entertainment, catering, which fell under restrictions due to the pandemic, were forced to close or reduce employees. According to the Higher School of Economics, the number of people employed in the labor market decreased by 1.5 million mainly due to small businesses. In order to support employers and their employees, to return employment to the level before the pandemic, the state has developed support measures. One of them is payments to employers for the employment of citizens from the labor exchange. The program is valid from March.
Who and how are they hiring?
“You can hire an employee through the employment service, then apply to the Social Insurance Fund with an application and receive a subsidy based on the results of the employee’s work for one month, then after 3 months and 6 months,” explains acting chairman of the Social Insurance Fund Tatyana Lototskaya. The subsidy is equal to the minimum wage (minimum wage, in 2021, 12,792 rubles) plus social contributions to the funds (all employees who pay wages also pay contributions for an employee to extra-budgetary funds), taking into account district salary coefficients. After the start of the program, a proposal was received to extend the offer of subsidies to employers who will hire graduates of educational institutions in 2020 who have registered with the employment service.
“Such actions in support of the housing and communal services of entrepreneurs during the pandemic make it possible to save jobs, get wages for people, and therefore stabilize in economic terms,” I am convinced District Coordinator of “Business Russia” for the Siberian Federal District, member of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes Viktor Zubarev.
On average, it turns out that for one employee hired from the labor exchange, the employer could receive a subsidy of 50 thousand rubles. by the sum of three payments. Thanks to the program, drivers were hired most of all, and tractor drivers took the second place. In general, the program turned out to be the most popular among agricultural enterprises. There were many applications from companies in general, especially for the production of bakery and confectionery products, for vacancies of unskilled workers. For example, one of the catering enterprises in the city of Verkhny Ufaley, Chelyabinsk region, hired 7 people under this program.
“For five employees, we received two payments in full after working for three months, for two more payments after the first month of work,” said individual entrepreneur Tatyana Maksimova. It is easy to register an application for participation in the program. We were greatly supported by our employment service, whose employees told us about this program, helped us fill out the documents.
But the private agricultural enterprise “VectorAgro” from the Kurgan region employed even more employees than it had. “We have been working since 2019, before there were only 15 people on the staff. Thanks to the program, we have hired 20 people from the labor exchange. We received money in two tranches, 800 thousand rubles. This was a very good support for us, because our work is seasonal, andwe usually get a profit for our products in winter. We invested in the repair of equipment, purchased air conditioners and put them on tractors. It has been hot in the Kurgan region since April, so this has seriously facilitated the life of our tractor drivers and drivers. We also bought workwear, shoes, hats, and protective equipment. I would like this program to continue for the next year.”
“There are no restrictions where the employee can direct the media. I am glad that the funds received by many employers are directed to improving working conditions for employees, as well as to their means of protection, ” Tatyana Lototskaya noted.
Among the regions, the Altai Territory was the most active in hiring citizens. Omsk, Kurgan, Rostov, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Orenburg, Voronezh regions, Dagestan, Crimea are also among the top 10.
The program is designed until December 27, 2021. Therefore, employers still have the opportunity to receive subsidies. Those who will hire employees in September will have time to receive one payment if the terms of the program are not extended.
How will the employer be checked?
& laquo;The employer submits an application for participation in the project through his personal account on the portal «Work in Russia», where he can attach a list of professions, vacant positions, & ndash; tells Deputy Head of the Department of Control and Coordination in the field of employment of the population of the Federal Service for Labor and Employment Yulia Kholomtseva. The application is submitted to the employment service of the population. Next, specialists check whether the employer meets the requirements. In particular, the company must be registered before January 1, 2021, must not be in the stage of bankruptcy, have arrears on wages, taxes, etc. After the possibility is confirmedthe employer will participate in this project, the employment service will receive proposals for candidates until the vacancy is closed. And then, in the mode of an interview with the employer (in person or in the format of video communication), a decision is made on their employment.
At the next stage, the Social Insurance Fund is connected.
“The employment services send us the details of the employers and the SNILS of the employees they have hired,” says Head of the Department for Ensuring Insurance Payments of the Social Insurance Fund Vyacheslav Tolkachev. “A month after the employment of employees, employers submit an application through the personal account of the policyholder on the FSS website, where they indicate the hired employees for whom they want to receive a subsidy. After verification, the employer receives a subsidy within 10 working days from the date of sending the application. Payments are made in three tranches. After the first month, then after the 102nd day and the third tranche after the 192nd day of employment. At the same time, it is enough to send an application for each employee once.
Thanks to the introduction of electronic workbooks, it is now easy to check the fact of employment. “Since 2020, employers are required to transfer this information to the Pension Fund within one working day from the date of issuing the order on hiring an employee,” explains Natalia Belyantseva, Head of the Department of Organization of Personalized Accounting of Pension Rights of Insured Persons of the Pension Fund. “If the employer has provided us with information about the employment of a citizen in a timely manner, then the information goes to the FSS that yes, indeed, this employee works for this “employer”.
“It is important to note that in this project, the employer does not need to personally visit state structures due to the fact that the portal “Work in Russia”, personal accounting in the form of an electronic workbook and the employer’s personal account on the Social Insurance Fund website, which can be used to apply, ” Tatyana Lototskaya emphasizes.
Any enterprises, including individual entrepreneurs, joint-stock companies, etc., can participate in the program of subsidizing the employment of the unemployed. There are no restrictions on the legal and territorial status. There are many examples when an organization registered in one region recruited employees from other regions and received subsidies .
All questions about the work project can be asked by the employers by calling the “hotline” of the Social Insurance Fund or in the regional telegram chat. To connect to it, you need to call the regional branch of the Foundation and ask for a link with an invitation. The status of working out an application for a subsidy can be tracked in the employer’s personal account on the FSS website.