Almost half a million jobs affected by unemployment were protected

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December 28, 2021 – 04:38 p. m.

2021-12-28

2021-12-28

One of the social programs promoted by the Social Investment Law this year was the one delivered to the companies that saw their operations affected as a result of the closures generated by the days of national unemployment.

(Microenterprises, the most benefited by Paef subsidies ).

One-time only, employers who applied and met the program requirements, regardless of their payroll size, received $ 181,500 for each worker, that is , 20% of a minimum wage.

As a result of this special initiative, 12,684 employers from all over the country benefited, through which the protection of 441,726 jobs was achieved of work, with the disbursement of $ 107 billion.

Said resources were turned to employers who were up-to-date in the payment of wages and social security contributions of their workers and that between May and June of this year had a fall in their income equal to or greater than 20% due to the working hours. The latter This requirement will be verified by the UGPP during the audit phase. ation of the program.

(The deadline for micro and small businesses to apply to Paef).

These figures are added to the general balance of the other support programs for formal employment established by the Social Investment Law, with the following approaches of protection:

– Help for companies with maximum 50 workers through the Paef Formal Employment Support Program.

– Support for employers who create new jobs, both for young people between 18 and 28 years of age and for women and men over 28 years of age.

For the payrolls of April and May 2021, the Paef protected 304 thousand jobs through 36,111 micro or small employers with grants for $ 204,931 million . To date, the UGPP is validating the more than 86 thousand applications received for the June, July and August payrolls.

Through the Financial entities will be receiving again at the beginning of 2022 the applications to subsidize the payrolls of September, October and November and thus end with the expansion of the program provided by the Social Investment Law.

For its part, the Support Program for the generation of New Employment, stimulated the creation of 138,588 new jobs of which 73%, that is, 102,066 were for young people between 18 and 28 years of age, 21,607 corresponded to women over 28 years old and 14,915 to men over 28 years of age. years. If to this is added what was achieved through the Support program for the generation of young employment through the Shake yourself strategy, it can be said that these initiatives have allowed to generate 194,378 new jobs, of which 157,856 correspond to new sources of work for young people .

This balance shows that the Government Nacional has allocated more than $ 7 billion to protect both the income of workers and their families as well as access to health, pension and occupational risks.

For the General Director (e) of the Pension and Parafiscal Management Unit (UGPP) , Ana María Cadena Ruiz, “the balance of what reached in 2021 is very positive and shows how the targeting of the programs has made it possible to reach the neediest sectors and populations, stimulating labor formalization in the midst of economic reactivation. ”

Invited in 2022 employers who need it and c meet the requirements, continue to apply for the Paef for micro and small businesses and the Employment Generation Support Program.

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