The Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry informs its members / companies and all interested parties that the Ministry of Labor, Welfare and Social Insurance (mlsi) has announced the operation of a special website where interested parties can find all forms regarding its support measures of the Ministry. More specifically:
Special Child Care License
➢ Valid from 16/3/2020 to 12/4/2020 for:
They cannot work either remotely or at home or flexibly and if there is no home help.
➢The application is only submitted by employees who are insured with the Social Insurance Fund in January 2020 and have last monthly gross salary up to € 2500
➢ The period of issue of the Special Care Permit for Child Care may not exceed4 weeks total for both parents.
➢ If one parent receives Special Child Care Permit, the other cannot receive for the same period.
➢ If one parent works and the other does not (either because he or she receives an unemployment benefit or a special unemployment benefit or disease benefit or special disease benefit either because it is unemployed or for similar reasons), the working parent is not entitled to Special Child Care Leave for that period, unless the parent does working has himself or herself been infected with COVID 19 or is hospitalized or a person with or is a person with a compulsory limitation.
➢ To qualify for a childcare allowance you need to ensure the consent of the employer.
➢ For parents of people with disabilities, Special Child Care Permit is granted if no care allowance is granted to these persons by the Ministry of Labor, Welfare and Social Security
the applicant receives an unemployment benefit, a special unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, special sickness allowance.
How the Child Care Special Leave allowance is calculated, provided they are met all terms and conditions:
➢ Based on January 2020 salary or if there is no data for the last salary 2020, based on the last salary for which there is evidence within the last 9 months in the register of Social Insurance Services:
this part of the salary and for the part of the salary from € 1,000 to € 2,000
a 40% allowance is calculated. The maximum amount of allowance for a period of one per month may not exceed € 1,000.
respectively and the maximum amount of allowance for a period of one month cannot
exceeds € 1,200.
The € 2,500 will be examined based on the particular features of each case.
➢ For the period for which the Special Care Leave allowance will be paid Children, the employer is exempt from the obligation to pay wages to his employees who received this allowance.
➢ The period of the Special Child Care Leave will be considered as a simulation period insurance for contributions to the Social Insurance Fund and will be credited depending on the beneficiary's insurance account.
Please find more information and the applications at www.coronavirus.mlsi.gov.cy.
Special Sickness Allowance
Valid until 12/4/2020 for private employees or self-employed persons who fall into any of the following categories:
➢Special Sickness Allowance is granted only to persons who work during period for which they apply for the sick leave and are insured at Social Security Fund, are up to 65 years old and do not receive statutory pension.
How is the sickness benefit calculated provided all conditions are met and prerequisites:
➢ For self-employed persons and self-employed persons for whom the insurance requirements under the Social Security Act, at 60% of value of insurance units in accordance with the above Law.
➢ For self-employed persons who are not eligible for insurance the Social Security Act and they are insured in the Social Fund Insurance in January 2020 will be paid Special Sickness Allowance under conditions, the amount of which will be determined by a subsequent Decision.
➢ For a self-employed person for whom insurance is not covered conditions will amount to 60% of the weekly amount of policyholders his earnings based on the income for which the fourth quarter of 2019 had obligation to pay contributions to the Social Security Fund.
➢ The maximum amount that can be paid as a special sickness benefit for employees of the private sector and for self-employed for a period of one month can not exceeds € 1,214.
➢Special Sickness Allowance is not granted for the period for which the applicant receives Unemployment Allowance, Special Unemployment Allowance, Sickness Allowance, Special Leave Allowance for Child Care.
➢ The period for which the Sickness Allowance is granted will be taken into account for the calculation and provision of the sickness allowance provided for by the provisions of the Social Security Laws.
➢ For the period for which the sickness benefit will be paid, the employer is exempt from his obligation to pay the salary to his employees who received this Special Sickness Allowance.
➢ The period of the Special sickness allowance will be considered as a simulated period insurance for contributions to the Social Insurance Fund and will be credited depending on the beneficiary's insurance account.
Please find more information and the applications at www.coronavirus.mlsi.gov.cy.
SUBSIDY SCHEME FOR SELF – EMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS
Press & Information Office | PCCI
Pafos Chamber is informing its members / businesses as well as any interested parties of the measures announced jointly on Sunday 16 March 2020 by H.E President of the Republic of Cyprus Mr Nikos Anastasiadis together with the Ministers of Health, Finance, Labor and Welfare and Social Security. We would like to remind you that the Local Chambers of Commerce have transmitted and assisted in the formulation of the above measures through the Cyprus Chamber and are in constant contact with the Government and the State to take additional action where appropriate.
The "Support Program" includes the following:
AID NETWORK PROTECTION OF WORKERS AND VULNERABLE GROUPS
A "special permit", which may last up to 4 weeks at this stage, and which does not include public holidays, will be granted the following allowance:
For a parent with a salary of up to € 2,500: for the first € 1,000 of the parent's salary a 'special leave' allowance of 60% of the salary will be paid and for the subsequent € 1,000 of his / her salary, a 40 % allowance will be paid. It is noted that in the case of single parent families, the rate of payment of the benefit varies between 70% and 50% respectively.
[1 month € 20m, potential beneficiaries 50,000 persons]
In many businesses has today decided to suspend their work and many businesses will continue to operate and will suffer a decrease in turnover in excess of 25% applies Draft Suspension of business operations in order to avoid redundancies, while the affected workers They will receive unemployment benefits for as long as the company will be suspended operations.
bonus payment, which will equal pay, approximately 5000 persons employed in Afternoon and Evening Programs of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth (Music Schools, Sports Schools, State Education Institutes, Training Centers, optionally Day Schools, Evening and Evening programs Arts and the program "School and Social Integration Actions") and other similar services of the Ministry of Education purchase plans.
ι.Workers experiencing particular health problems within the directory that has been prepared by the Ministry of Health, who must be absent from work for health protection purposes and not the worse. Condition the presentation of a certificate from their personal physician.
ιι.compulsory absence cases from work to persons with instructions or ordered by the Authorities (Division 1 [statutory limitation under medical monitoring (quarantine)] and Category 2 [Restrained under telephone surveillance]), provided that restricted workers hold a certificate issued by the Ministry of Health.
iii. Persons beyond the age of 63rd year until the age of 65 year, who do not receive a statutory pension and continue to work and which fall under the Categories and the Ministry of Health, provided that restricted workers hold a certificate issued by the Ministry of Health.
For purposes of enhancing the self-employed, sickness benefit will be paid as and employees, from the fourth day.
[For each 20,000 employees, 16m]
Payment of benefits for those benefits will be by simplified and accelerated procedures.
STRENGTHENING HEALTH SYSTEM
- Employment additional medical, nursing and support staff and for more effective and more direct response to the work they are required to carry.
- Strengthening equipment and logistics
- Strengthening of the Institute of Neurology & Genetics, both in human resources and infrastructure
- Strengthening the Center Ambulance
- Strengthening of the Office 1420
[€ 100m]
BUSINESS SUPPORT AND STRENGTHENING OF LIQUIDITY AND ENHANCING INTERNAL CONSUMPTION
This measure will result in strengthening of liquidity in the period in which it is expected to face a liquidity problem.
OTHER MEASURES of PROTECTION OF CITIZENS
The public service and the broader public sector and serving the educational service for the next month, from Tuesday 17/3/2020 will work:
The above arrangement excluding essential services. The competent ministers will determine the needs of the Ministry and their Departments for proper planning of the work.
Regarding the Educational Service, the Minister of Education and Culture is authorized to draw up the program for the educational needs for the duration of the non-operation of the public schools in order through the use of technology to address part of the educational program.
Regardless of what has been mentioned above, and to ensure timely and effective implementation of the measures announced, those serving in the public service, the public sector and the educational service will be required if not in a designated service or homework where invited to provide their services in other areas if deemed necessary.
Finally the Minister of Health by ministerial decree in accordance with a decision of the Cabinet, in a series of measures taken by the Government to protect public health and managing the impact of the epidemic of the coronavirus, explained that from March 16, 2020 from 6-00 am For a period of four weeks, the operation of the following companies compulsorily suspended:
Provided that they receive compulsory and strictly observe hygiene rules, companies can perform administrative or other tasks with close doors.
For health safety reasons and proper functioning of the community, open the following business categories remain:
It clarified that retailers who do not fall into category suspend their operations can continue their work by ensuring that the workplace will be no more than five workers.
All other companies not-listed the above categories, can continue to operate as it will keep strict hygiene rules and the protection of staff and space.
In regard to the operation of hotels, they suspend their work until April 30th 2020. To serve their existing customers may continue to operate for a period of six days from now.
Regarding the public service companies from the private, public and parastatal noted that not strictly true that the presence of people in the service area should be more than one person per 8 square meters. Indicatively, public service area means the bank branches, Citizen Service Centers, the bill payment centers, and so on.
Finally, arrangements regarding public transportation will be announced the same day by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works.
Press office PCCI
16 | 03 | 20
The Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, following a meeting with the Commercial Councilor of the Polish Embassy in Cyprus, Mr Mirosław Gojdź, in early August, assessing the opportunities discussed at the meeting regarding the possibility of expanding the export of local, agricultural and livestock products as well Mr. Gojdź will again visit our city to inform entrepreneurs about the coordinated promotion of the Services sector (hotels, catering, leisure, etc.)
He will be in Paphos on Wednesday and Thursday and will meet with Businessmen at the EBE Paphos Offices that are wishing to participate in the Business Delegation in Poznan, Poland on 30 September to 03 October. In addition to the information Mr Gojdź will provide to entrepreneurs further details in order to achieve productive meetings at the forthcoming Polagra Exhibition and on Thursday he will have the opportunity to visit on-site business, industry, winery and other SMEs for further information useful for deepening trade relations between the two countries.
The Pafos Chmaber of Commerce & Industry invites its members as well as businesses wishing to attend the meeting and thus the Business Delegation to Poland to contac the PCCI Secretariat at 26818173. For more information on airline tickets, hotels and entry tickets of the exhibition/ Trade Fare can also visit the Polagra Food, International Trade Fare for Food website at the link below:
https://www.polagra-food.pl/en/
The Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry participated in the fourth partner meeting held on Friday, April 21, 2017, in Bratislava, Slovakia, within the framework of its participation in the Open Educational Resources for the Development of Arts and Crafts (OER-CRAFT).
OER-CRAFT aims to develop innovative training solutions to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of micro-enterprises, in particular in their participation in national and Community markets, by developing relevant training solutions and materials to enhance the capability of existing very small and craft-type businesses to compete in today's economic environment. The OER-CRAFT program is aimed at all those individuals who want to set up their own business in response to the crisis and unemployment.
The idea behind OER-CRAFT is to develop a free-of-charge training platform open to all, aimed at micro-enterprises and craft and craft enterprises, with a view to promoting their access to the single market EU and the opportunities offered by the EU to enhance its competitiveness.
The Chamber was represented by Mr. Makis Tsiatsios, Head of Public & International Relations.
For more information about the platform and all the free information created for micro-businesses, interested parties can visit http://www.craftstraining.eu/
Το Επιμελητήριο Πάφου, μέσα στα πλαίσια των στόχων του, για να καταστεί η Πάφος Διεθνές Περιφερειακό Κέντρο Παροχής Υπηρεσιών υψηλής επαγγελματικής στάθμης, πραγματοποίησε σύσκεψη με τους ιδιοκτήτες ιδιωτικών κλινικών της Επαρχίας Πάφου, υπό τον Πρόεδρο του Επιμελητηρίου Πάφου κ. Ανδρέα Δημητριάδη, με σκοπό την διερεύνηση των προϋποθέσεων για την προώθηση συνεργασιών στους τομείς της παροχής ιατροφαρμακευτικών υπηρεσιών μεταξύ Πάφου και Ισραήλ.
Η σύσκεψη έγινε μετά την συνάντηση του κ. Δημητριάδη με τον Πρόεδρο του Επιμελητηρίου του Τελ Αβιβ κ. Uriel Lynn και ενόψει προγραμματισμένης επίσκεψης τετραμελούς Ισραηλινής αντιπροσωπείας στην Πάφο τον ερχόμενο μήνα.
