Three new government initiatives for Gozo
- Gozo Employment Aid scheme helps 348 people
- Magro employees successfully complete ETC courses
- Employment rate stands at 55.1% at end of 2009
- Employment and Training Corporation schemes and services
- ETC schemes and services seminar in Gozo
- Increase in employment in 4th Quarter of 2008
- Renovation works completed at MacDonalds Gozo
- Employment aid scheme for persons with difficulties in Gozo
- Unemployment in 2nd quarter of 2009 rises to 7%
- Enhancement of premises and services at the ETC Job Centre
- Seminar on Promoting Gozo for Industry held
- ETC Youth Employment Strategy launched
- 170 Gozitans sucessfully complete EU courses
- The ETC spent €740,930 on employment schemes last year
- Employment statistics rise but unemployment statistics remain static
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, Investments Minister Austin Gatt and Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono, met over the weekend to launch three new schemes aimed at creating more jobs in Gozo.
Firstly they announced a revision of the Cottage Industry Rules so that part-time skilled workers who earn Lm5,000 or less a year will become VAT-exempt.
The second scheme is intended to provide help in the employment of ‘disadvantaged’ workers such as mothers returning to work, single parents and those over 50. This will be achieved by an increase in Employment and Training Corporation and Malta Enterprise aid schemes which will pay up to half of the first year’s salary of people who are employed in this category.
The third scheme is aimed at helping businesses invest in Gozo through an investment aid grant that will be linked to the jobs that are created. Businesses utilising this scheme will be eligible for tax credits under the Business Promotion Act.
In addition Lm40,000 from the Good Causes Fund will be used to help create new activities that will attract more people to visit Gozo between October and May of every year.
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