Hatzidakis: Extension of the training program for 80,000 unemployed after the exhaustion of resources

The expansion of the DYPA (Public Employment Service) program for the training of 80,000 unemployed, as due to the great demand that was expressed, the positions were sold out, announced the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakis speaking today Wednesday at the conference “Investments in Greece & Development Prospects – 2022” organized by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and the Hellenic Institute of Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Development.

“The DYPA program has already started to train 80,000 unemployed people in skills where companies lack staff, such as digital trade, logistics, digital marketing, but also the energy upgrade of facilities and green entrepreneurship. This program has been in such high demand, in fact, that we will soon announce its extension, as places are sold out! At the same time, the retraining and skills upgrading program for workers regardless of age and in all sectors of the economy, with an emphasis on digital and green skills, follows in October. This program will amount to more than 300 million euros and will concern 150,000 workers. We make the most of European resources. Over 700,000 employed and unemployed they will benefit from training and skills upgrading programs that will be financed by the Recovery Fund and the new NSRF until 2025,” the minister said.

The application platform for the training program for 80,000 unemployed people, aimed at developing skills demanded by businesses, opened on July 27 and the €100m budget has been used up in less than two months despite the increased requirements foreseen for both training providers and trainees.

“Our goal is for training to cease to be just a bonus procedure, but with the tightening of the conditions we have adopted to become a real weapon of the workers and the unemployed for the future! But the businesses operating in Greece should also have access to the workforce they need,” the minister stressed.

Referring to the issues of insurance, Mr. Hatzidakis underlined the new framework for individual piggy banks for the supplementary pensions of young people while he announced institutional interventions for the Occupational Insurance Funds.

“Our goal, he emphasized, is to form a more modern and functional institutional and supervisory framework. So that the industry can grow in a healthy way, through adequate and fair incentives for all policyholders, while strengthening their protection. Indicatively, some of the interventions will be:

• The reduction of bureaucracy and administrative burden by simplifying the licensing process of a TEA
• The improvement of flexibility through the possibility of establishing multi-employer TEAs.
• The strengthening of supervision by the establishment of uniform rules and the rationalization of their taxation!”

Relatively with the new insurance bill, spoke of streamlining provisions of the insurance legislation in particular with regard to the statute of limitations and the settlement of debts. “The statute of limitations for unconfirmed debts to EFKA is limited to 10 years from 20 years. You cannot be a hostage of EFKA all your life! Especially when he hasn’t even notified you that you owe. We also harmonize the EFKA arrangements for installments with those of the tax authorities. Both EFKA and the tax office belong to the same state!”, said the minister characteristically.

He also highlighted the actions announced as part of the restart of the housing policy, with a particular emphasis on new couples and young people in general, such as low-interest loans for the purchase of a first home and the “Coverage” program through which they will be rented by the State and allocated to poorer young couples, private homes that participated in the “Estia” program of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum. Both programs, noted Mr. Hatzidakis, will start at the beginning of 2023, stressing that through the renovation and energy upgrading programs of the homes that will be made available, the market and the construction industry will be helped to move.

The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs recalled the results of government policy which include the rise of GDP by 8.3% in 2021 and by 7.8% in the first half of 2022, the increase in investments, deposits and turnover in retail as and the reduction of unemployment to the lowest level in the last 12 years. “We gave more than 43 billion during the crisis. euros to households, workers, the unemployed and businesses in one of the most important GDP-based support programs in Europe and around the world,” he said.

“Contrary to the slogans of the opposition, the government promotes policies, which not only put the country’s economy on new and stable tracks – simultaneously healing the wounds of the crises that our country was and is facing – but which also respond to the economic, social and technological challenges of the new era. Policies that are everyday life in advanced European countries. Policies to which Greek citizens have a right!” concluded Mr. Hatzidakis.

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