The creation of jobs in villages and small towns will be encouraged and the chances of employment of both Moldovan citizens and foreign workers will be enhanced. To this end, the cabinet today approved an action plan for 2018 for the implementation of the national strategy of labour force employment.   

The actions provided for are focused on the achievement of four goals: developing competences of people for enhancing possibilities of employment, ensuring a good government of the labour market, turning to good account of the potential of migration for sustainable development and creating employment opportunities.
 

The access to loans will be facilitated for the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises. Also, an industrial park will be set in Comrat, where over 2,500 jobs will be created. Support programmes will be provided to young entrepreneurs, financings for businesses done by women and grants for farmers.  

At the same time, decision-makers will diversify opportunities of employment of Moldova’s citizens returned from abroad, as well as of foreign workers looking for a job in Moldova. Persons from vulnerable groups, disabled people, as well as the ones released from prisons will receive support at employment too. The state will earmark 900 million lei for the creation of jobs in villages and 34 million lei – for allowances for young specialists in medicine who go to work in villages. 

Also, actions will be undertaken for the continuous training of specialists, improvement of practical aptitudes of graduates through probation, providing unemployment benefits and fighting salaries in envelopes.
  

As much as 1.2 billion lei is necessary to carry out the measures included in the plan. The spending will be covered from the state budget and external sources.  
 

As many as 16,500 out of those more than 42,000 jobless people registered by the National Agency for Labour Force Employment, were employed in 2017.