As Jadranka Dozan/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 28th of September, 2020, applications for support for the month of September began ten days ago for groups of employers and Croatian enterprises for whom the Government’s job preservation measures (ORM) were extended until the end of the year.
For those Croatian enterprises eligible for part-time support, which was introduced in the middle of the year, the deadline for submitting applications for the period from September to the end of the year expired at the end of August, and applications for support start in October. The Croatian Employment Service, through which certain programmes are implemented within the framework of the ORM measures, has so far paid out a total of 6.6 billion kuna in these grants. The majority of it was paid in the first three months of implementation (salaries for March, April and May), and with the relaxation of epidemiological measures restricting work and the number of employers and employees, the total monthly amount of payments was significantly reduced.
Payments for Croatian enterprises for August are ongoing
In June, a total of 304.7 million kuna was paid out, for the salaries of 78,322 employees to a total of 18,000 employers who fell into the proper criteria with a drop in revenue. According to the latest CES data, 247.7 million kuna was paid to Croatian enterprises in the name of these grants (until September the 24th, 2020). Payments for August, they say, are still ongoing, and 121.7 million kuna has been paid out so far.
Measures to reduce working hours, intended for Croatian enterprises with more than 10 employees and the expected decline in the fund of working hours of at least 10 percent, were used by 143 employers in July who were paid more than 15.2 million kuna in support. So far, one million kuna has been paid out in the name of this type of support for nine employers for the month of August.
The CES stated that 570 applications from Croatian enterprises have been received for this support so far. The majority of payments under ORM measures in July and August refer to those requested by Croatian enterprises according to the criterion of declining income (more than 60 percent) and belonging to the activities most affected by the crisis (transport and storage, catering/hospitality, events, arts and entertainment).
These subsidies amount to 4,000 kuna per worker, more than 185.5 million kuna (for 7,329 beneficiaries) was paid in July, and slightly more than 100 million kuna (for 4,353 beneficiaries) was paid out in August. According to the criteria established after June for micro-enterprises (up to 2,000 kuna), about 11.5 thousand of them received aid in July, and the CES forwarded them more than 46 million kuna, and for August so far, slightly more than 20 million kuna has been paid out.
The latest detailed data on beneficiaries of ORM measures refer to grants for June. The list of the top 10 according to the total amount of co-financing is mostly made up of the largest tourist companies led by Valamar (9.6m), Plava Laguna (4.86m) and Maistra (4.4m), and in the top 10 users are four more hotel companies. The Student Centre of the University of Zagreb with 3.4 million in grants and two transport companies – Cazmatrans (2.66 million kuna) and Autotrans (2.42 million kuna) were among the ten largest in June. At the same time, as of June, production companies such as AD Plastik from Solin and Boxmark Leather from Varazdin were no longer in that group of Croatian enterprises.
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