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President's Administration: New social policy to create additional 800 thousand jobs

President's Administration: New social policy to create additional 800 thousand jobs
Cabinet's initiatives on employment increase will allow creating 700-800 thousand additional jobs already in 2013, deputy head of the President's Administration Iryna Akymova told a briefing, ForUm's correspondent reports.

According to the official, the Cabinet's initiatives are aimed at promotion and support of professional activity of social groups.

"The biggest rate of unemployment is registered among youth (20%) and people of preretirement age (30%). The government will introduce mechanisms to make entrepreneurs hire workers of these social groups, including remission of certain charges for one year for every workplace for the above mentioned categories of citizens. The corresponding draft bill is under development," she said.

According to Akymova, special attention will be paid to the so-called transformational workplaces, when young people are offered contract employment up to three months. "Under such contracts employers also will not pay social fees," the official specified.