3.8.1.3. Contents

With a view to promoting employment and balance in the labour market, subsidies may be granted to activities targeted at persons who are registered with the public employment service as jobseekers and at efforts to fill vacancies notified to the public employment service. Normally, a condition for granting such sub-sidies will be that there are no unemployed people in the local area with the skills required to fill the vacancies concerned. Subsidies may, for instance, be granted for organising information meetings in enterprises with vacancies and to cover costs in connection with jobseeking activities, including travel costs associated with recruitment interviews and job tests and participation in information meetings. The public employment service is responsible for the administration of these activi-ties. The Natio-nal Labour Market Authority retains a small part of the ap-propriations in a central fund to cover national activities and measures.

3.8.1.4. Financial resources

It is up to the public employment service in the individual region to decide which activities to support (section 28 (1) of the above-mentioned order)

3.8.1.5. Institutional support

The National Labour Market Authority assists the local employment services in administering this scheme.

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