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Advanced Programme promotes open-ended hiring of qualified young people
Advanced Programme promotes open-ended hiring of qualified young people
Encouraging the open-ended hiring of qualified young people with a basic salary of €1,330 or more
The Avançar program aims to "encourage the permanent hiring of qualified young people with a basic salary equal to or greater than 1330 euros," said the Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, at the presentation of the program in Lisbon, which was also attended by the Secretary of State for Labour, Miguel Fontes.
Another objective is the permanent hiring of 25,000 qualified young people, with the programme providing financial support of between 8.6 and 12.4 thousand euros for companies and discounts of 50% of social security contributions.
Young people employed – up to the age of 35, with a higher qualification and registered as unemployed at the Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP) – still receive a monthly grant of EUR 150, a ‘financial support for self-employment’, during the first year of the employment contract.
The Avançar programme, which is regulated by Ministerial Implementing Order No 187/2023 published in the Official Gazette, also provides for increases in financial support for recruitment ‘whenever it is a question of hiring young people with disabilities and incapacity, a job located in the interior territory, when the employer is part of an instrument of collective labour regulation, when it is a question of hiring qualified young people who are in a situation of long-term unemployment, and also the hiring of qualified young people of the under-represented sex in the profession’.
The programme aims to ‘attract and retain talent from skilled young people’ and to support their empowerment, as well as to ‘promote the improvement of job quality by encouraging more stable employment links and promoting the setting of wages appropriate to the skills of young people, fostering and supporting the net creation of jobs for skilled young people’.
In May, 70 500 young people were unemployed in Portugal, corresponding to a youth unemployment rate of 18.6%, more than three times that of adults (5.5%).
The Forward programme implements yet another measure of the Income and Competitiveness Agreement.
For more information on recipients, conditions and applications see the website of the Institute for Employment and Vocational Training.
Source: Government Portal