Amendments to the Law "On Promotion of Employment"

In Official Journal No. 105, dated 13.07.2023, Law No. 47/2023 "On some additions and changes to Law No. 15/2019 "On promoting employment", approved by the Assembly of the Republic of Albania on 22.06.2023. By means of this Law, the procedural gap regarding the payment of a monetary value for the account of the Social Employment Fund is also regulated, since it is already established that the Employer is obliged to pay a contribution of 100 percent of the salary every month for the account of the Social Employment Fund minimum nationwide, if it does not employ 1 person with disabilities for the first 25 employees of the enterprise and one additional person for every 50 other employees. The collection of the contribution paid by the employer will be monitored by the General Directorate of Taxes and any violation found in non-implementation of this obligation will be considered by the state inspectorate that covers the field of work as an administrative offense and will be punished with a fine according to provisions of the law on labor inspection. The Ministry of Finance is tasked with approving, in implementation of this law, the sub-legal act on the procedures and method of collecting the contribution for the Social Employment Fund, by 31.12.2023. This law enters into force 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.