Significant steps are taken to ensure the maintenance of jobs and increase employment opportunities; the program on providing low-income families, who have lost their jobs due to the special quarantine regime, with one-time payment is executed.
In accordance with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's instruction, works are carried out to raise the number of public jobs to 90, 000. Over the last days, 18, 000 people have been provided with paid public jobs via the DOST Work Center of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population.
Thus, the number of people doing paid public jobs has reached 55, 000. At the same time, according to the task of the head of state, the number of people benefiting from the one-time payment program has increased from 200, 000 to 600, 000 people.
So far, 400, 000 of them have been assigned one-time payment. Later, 200, 000 more people will be provided with one-time payment.
Overall, the admission of applications to the e-sosial.az portal by people, who are unemployed or have lost their jobs due to the quarantine regime, in connection with one-time payment has already finished.
The processing of applications is underway.