Employment subsidy for those aged 55 or over
Municipality of Hollola
Päijät-Häme Employment Services may grant your organisation employment subsidy to cover the costs of hiring their customers who are unemployed job seekers aged 55 or over.
The purpose of the subsidy is to promote the employment of those aged 55 or over by improving their professional or entrepreneurial skills. The subsidy is granted and paid to the employer, but the essential part of granting it is the service needs of the unemployed job seeker.
The employment subsidy requires that the unemployed job seeker to be employed has reached the age of 55 and has been unemployed for at least 24 months during the 28 months immediately preceding the granting of the employment subsidy.
The employment subsidy may be granted for open-ended full-time employment or fixed-term full-time employment. The person hired on the subsidy works for the beneficiary under an employment contract for at least 25 hours per week or at least 65 % of the maximum working time in the sector.
As an employer, you must commit to pay a salary in accordance with the collective agreement or, if there is no applicable collective agreement, you must pay a normal and reasonable salary for the work in question.
The subsidy covers 70 % of the eligible payroll costs for 10 months, but no longer than for the duration of the employment relationship.
Pay costs covered by the employment subsidy refer to the wages paid to the employee on the basis of working time or the performance of the work, subject to withholding. The employment subsidy is allocated to wage costs and the employer cannot cover non-wage costs or holiday pay.
Employment subsidy is paid up to a maximum of 1,770 euros per month. Päijät-Häme Employment Services grant employment subsidy according to the appropriations available to them.
Päijät-Häme Employment Services confirm the possibility of granting employment subsidy for hiring jobseekers. The possibility for subsidised employment has been indicated in the job seeker’s employment plan.
General advise on employment subsidy and its payment, as well as assistance for e-services, is provided by the Päijät-Häme Employment Services telephone service for employers.
Toimi näin
Apply for employment subsidy well in advance of the start of the employment relationship. You can apply the subsidy only with an electronic form. Before making the decision, Päijät-Häme Employment Services confirm the prerequisites for granting the subsidy, as well as information related to taxes, and request for further information if necessary. The employment relationship may not begin until the employment subsidy has been granted.
In the Job Market Finland e-service, the application can be submitted by an authorised person. Persons without separate authorisation can act on behalf of an organisation if they have an existing mandate for transactions or a right based on register data. The mandate theme is called Applying for pay subsidy. Authorised persons act on behalf of their organisation through Suomi.fi e-Identification. The service verifies the person's right to use the service when logging in. In addition to authorizations organisations need their business ID to use the e-services.
How to apply for the subsidy
Apply for the subsidy via the Job Market Finland e-service. Log in to the e-service using your personal banking ID, mobile certificate or certificate card.
Fill in the application and attach the necessary attachments to it through the e-services’ service menu. The e-services’ built-in instructions will help with filling in the application. Notifications received from the service provide information on the different stages of your transaction. By using e-services, you can submit an application, respond to requests for supplementary information concerning the application, supplement your application and receive decisions concerning your transaction.
How to apply payment of the subsidy
Apply for payment of the subsidy in the Job Market Finland e-services in accordance with the subsidy decision.
Apply for payment of the subsidy on a monthly basis for the wage payment periods ending during the calendar month. Apply for the payment of the subsidy three months after the end of the subsidy period before it expires. The application does not expire during the subsidy period.
You will receive a notification of the payment of employment subsidy in the Job Market Finland e-service.
Kenelle ja millä ehdoin
You can receive employment subsidy if the organisation you represent is:
- a company,
- a municipality, joint municipal authority or wellbeing services county, or
- other community, such as an association, foundation, registered religious community or parish.
Employment subsidy cannot be granted if the salary of the person employed with the subsidy is based solely on the result of the work, for example if the salary is merely a sales commission without a base salary. Nor can the subsidy be granted for an employment relationship that has started before the decision to grant the subsidy was made.
The subsidy will also not be granted to you if it would distort competition with others who provide the same products or services or if you have materially neglected your obligations to pay taxes or statutory payments.
Employment subsidy may be granted despite dismissals or lay-offs if the number of employees in employment relationship at the time of the application is at least equal to the number of employees at the time of the dismissal or lay-off. The subsidy must not weaken the position of the employees you employ.
Employment subsidy cannot be paid to you if: - you do not comply with the terms of the subsidy decision,
- it is discovered after granting the employment subsidy that the prerequisites for the subsidy are not fulfilled, or
- the subsidy has been granted erroneously, in excessive amounts or without justification.
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