Others(Other environmental measures)

Due to the surveys performed within the framework of “COVID-19: New Challenges in Ecologically Vulnerable Communities” project, various issues regarding the social sphere – the issue of enforced idleness of returned labor migrants to Armenia were revealed. The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs implements the following programs to ensure sustainable employment, in which labor migrants can take part:
• Provision of assistance for small enterprises that are not competitive in the labor market, as well as for animal husbandry.
• In case of employment of people who are uncompetitive in the labor market, returned from prisons, have disabilities, as well as individuals with the status of ” child with disabilities, provide partial salary compensation to the employer, inclusive of financial assistance to assistant of the person with disabilities,
• Providing employment to the unemployed in another place
• Provision of one-time compensation to the employer in case of employment of uncompetitive individuals in the labor market,
• Providing assistance to individuals on maternity leave for up to three years, in case of returning to work before the child reaches the age of two, in order to organize childcare in parallel with work,
• Providing assistance to people who are not competitive in the labor market to engage in animal husbandry
• Organizing of vocational training for unemployed people at risk of dismissal, as well as for those unemployed who have up to six months left to serve their sentence,
• Organizing trainings for parents of children with disabilities,
• Providing support to the unemployed to gain professional work experience in their profession.

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