December the 17th, 2020 – Minister Tomislav Coric has praised the Croatian Government’s economic measure which was introduced in order to help employers preserve jobs during the pandemic, and he offered further comments on the duration of the now well known 4000 kuna per worker measure.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the Minister of Labour, Josip Aladrovic, the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, Tomislav Coric, and the director of the Croatian Employment Service, Ante Loncar, came together to sign a contract for the “Stimulating education for related trades based on the PHASE II apprenticeship system” project.
The aim of the aforementioned project is to improve and develop the model of education for occupations within the system of related trades, the solving of problems related to the lack of licensed natural and legal persons conducting apprenticeships, as well as the lack of motivation of economic entities to participate in the process of enrollment into occupations from the system of related trades.
“Aside from the associations which are representing the employers, we’re going to hold a meeting with representatives of the main trade union centres in the context of the upcoming festive period and the eventual actions that we’re going to be taking,” announced Minister Tomislav Coric.
Measures to help the economy
Minister Tomislav Coric also commented on the duration of the Croatian Government’s economic measures during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
“This current phase we’re in, despite the relatively positive numbers when it comes to new cases of infection in the past few days when comparing them to the week before, we believe that this measure will continue for some time. As long as phase A of the lockdown of part of the sector lasts, ie the reduction of economic activity in the country due to reduced revenues, the longer the measures to help the economy will last. Therefore, on the one hand, we’ve got the measure of 4,000 kuna per worker, on the other hand, we’ve got the measures to shorten working hours, and finally, we’ve got measures to cover part or all of the fixed costs of a company, depending on the level of their revenue decline.
That money will be provided for as long as we’re witnessing such circumstances in regard to the functioning of the domestic economy. As circumstances change, new, possibly additional measures will be adopted, so that could mean that some of these measures will be abolished,” he said, adding that everything depends on whether the epidemiological situation in the country improves or worsens.
Regarding the decline in the number of employees in Croatia, Minister Tomislav Coric pointed out that the country is at the same level as it was before the pandemic struck the country. “We don’t have a significant increase in terms of unemployment. This first of all confirms the fact that Measure 3250, ie the ”4000 kuna measure” hit the spot properly and made sure unemployment, despite the crisis that hit the whole of Europe, avoided hitting Croatia too significantly,” Minister Tomislav Coric pointed out.
He also commented on the business and functioning of INA, which is an ongoing saga. “Unfortunately, over the last fifteen years, INA has been the subject of politics as a company, as has its very functioning, instead of being a subject of business,” he stated briefly.
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