The government will launch six public work programmes with combined funding of HUF 13bn (EUR 47.63m) beginning in January, Ministry of Social and Employment Affairs State Secretary Gabor Simon said on Wednesday.
The programmes are expected to involve 25,000 job-seekers and each programme includes training schemes as well. One of the six programmes is specifically aimed at Roma job-seekers.
The public work programmes are targeted at registered job-seekers who have recently lost their jobs as well as those who are older than 55 or young people who have not yet had a job.
16,000 public workers were employed for 4-9 months as part of 10 public work programmes in 2009, and 2,200 people received training. This year’s programmes were implemented with funding of HUF 9.3bn.
The programme differs from the Road to Work programme, which helps people long time on support back to work and may only give assistance to one job-seeker per family, and the employment was primarily organised by municipalities, Mr Simon added.