Informação: Regional Government announces increased support for self-employed workers
The Regional Secretary for Social Solidarity announced at the Legislative Assembly that the Regional Government is going to create a programme aimed at increasing support for self-employed workers in the Region, an exceptional measure in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Andreia Cardoso spoke by video conference during the discussion of a draft resolution on support for self-employed workers... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government supports companies providing training to workers in periods of lower activity
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, has created the Extraordinary Qualification Measure (MEQ), which consists of financial support to companies and their workers through the development of training plans. This new measure contributes to the creation of additional support for companies. It aims to reinforce the training of workers who are not laid off but are experiencing reduce... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government creates measures to support maintenance of hired workers in companies
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, has created the Extraordinary Labour Stabilisation Measure (MEET), which aims to provide additional support to Azorean companies to ensure the maintenance of jobs. This new measure consists of an additional incentive for companies to maintain their workers hired under fixed-term contracts, thus creating an additional incentive for the renewal... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government's financial support for payment of April salaries covered more than 10 thousand Azoreans
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, has already analysed, processed and paid 93% of the applications submitted by April 17 under the Liquidity Anticipation measure to support the payment of April salaries in the case of companies that had to suspend or substantially reduce their activity. Just two weeks after the deadline for the submission of applications, 93% of the 1,879 app... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government creates Special Placement of Workers measure to reinforce response capacity in the areas of health and social support
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, has created a new measure, designated as Special Placement of Workers (CET), with a view to reinforcing the response capacity of regional public and social solidarity institutions in the areas of health and social support. This measure is aimed at the temporary replacement of workers who are unable to perform their duties due to being in p... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government increases support for employment maintenance by 150 million Euros
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, announced in Angra do Heroísmo its decision to increase the support to help companies maintaining jobs by 150 million Euros, through the new Employment Maintenance Programme. This is an additional effort that the Regional Government is undertaking to ensure that Azorean companies using national lines of credit will benefit from additiona... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government anticipates payment of support to companies under job creation incentives
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, has decided, exceptionally, to anticipate the payment of financial support to companies that have created jobs in recent years, thus reinforcing the incentives for the maintenance of employment in the Region. This measure, aimed specifically at preserving jobs, arises from the need to adopt measures to support economic activity in the Azores ... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government to prioritise support for employment protection in the tourism sector
The Regional Secretary for Energy, Environment and Tourism emphasised that the Regional Government will give priority to the implementation of measures "intended to support employment protection" as well as to guarantee "the liquidity of companies" in the tourism sector, as part of the strategy to tackle the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marta Guerreiro spoke in Ponta Delgada during a hearin... Mais >>

Informação: Regional Government extends measures to support employment and income of Azoreans
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, has determined the extension of the implementation period of projects developed under the Inovar, EPIC, Reativar+ and Prosa measures, whose regulations have already been published in the Official Journal. This measure is aimed at increasing the support for employment and income of the Azoreans in order to minimise the effects of the COVID-19 pa... Mais >>

Informação: Press release from the Regional Government of the Azores
"Today we are living in exceptional circumstances that entail the adoption of exceptional measures to provide immediate support to the economy as well as to the maintenance of employment and workers' income. In this context, the Government of the Azores, in conjunction with the Working Group created for this purpose, has been monitoring, since the very first hour, the evolution of the economic s... Mais >>