COVID-19: Measures to Support Employees and Employers
EA BriefLabour
16 March, 2020The Ordinance no. 71-A/2020 of 15 March, which enters into force on 16 March 2020, establishes the terms and conditions for granting immediate support of an extraordinary, temporary and transitory nature to workers and employers affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, in order to maintain jobs and mitigate business crisis situations.
With its entry into force, the terms of access to extraordinary support for maintaining working contracts in a situation of business crisis are established, which is intended for the payment of salaries, with the supporting amount of 70% of the workers’ salaries.
An Extraordinary Training Plan is also established, designed for companies in business crisis situations, in order to maintain their jobs and strengthen the skills of their workers, so as to act preventively against unemployment, with extraordinary support from the IEFP, I.P., up to a limit of 50 % of gross remuneration, with the maximum limit of the RMMG.
An extraordinary financial incentive will also be granted to support the normalisation of the company’s activity, paid in one single payment and with the value of one RMMG per employee and to be granted by the IEFP, I.P.
Finally, there will be a temporary exemption from the payment of social security contributions, at the employer’s expense, for the workers covered and members of the statutory bodies, during the period of validity of these measures, as well as for self-employed workers who are employers benefiting from the measures and their spouses.