Within 10 days of the start date of the employment contract
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Who can social Security contributions – Applying for an exemption for hiring open prison inmates?
Employers.
When can you social Security contributions – Applying for an exemption for hiring open prison inmates?
Within 10 days of the start date of the employment contract.
What is the exemption period for hiring open prison inmates?
The maximum exemption period is 36 months.
If the open-ended contract is a result of the conversion of a previous fixed-term employment contract, for which the employer benefited from a reduction in the social security contribution rate, the combined duration of the two incentives may not exceed 36 months.
What are the documents and requirements to social Security contributions – Applying for an exemption for hiring open prison inmates?
The employer is entitled to the exemption if all of the following conditions are met:
the employer is properly constituted and duly registered;
it has fulfilled its obligations relating to tax and social security contributions with the Social Security and Tax and Customs Authorities;
it is not late in paying wages;
it is entering into a full-time or part-time open-ended employment contract with the employee;
it has, in the month in which it applies for the exemption, a total number of employees higher than the average number of employees registered in the 12 months immediately before applying.
How social Security contributions – Applying for an exemption for hiring open prison inmates?
Joint Order 561/2001 of 22 June – Determining the benefits under the general social security scheme for employed persons to be granted to employers who enter into contracts of employment with open prison inmates and who have fulfilled their obligations relating to social security contributions.
Decree-Law No 72/2017 of 21 June – Establishing incentives for hiring young people seeking their first job and the long-term and very long-term unemployed.