Responsibility for loss of the last job has no effect on status as an unemployed person.
Temporary incapacity for work
If an unemployed person is temporarily unfit for work and cannot report to the employment office him/herself, he/she can ask someone else to do so for him/her. In this case, however, a certificate is required stating that he/she is unable to attend in person.
The duration of the incapacity for work is irrelevant. The certificate proving the unemployed person's incapacity for work is merely required as evidence that he/she is unable to report in person on the date required by the employment office in order to ensure that his/her status as an unemployed person is unaffected and that he/she is not taken off the register.
Refusal of offers of employment
A worker who twice and without justified motive has turned down permanent employment which corresponds with his/her vocational qualifications will lose entitlement to unemployment benefit and will be removed from the register.
Checks on continued unemployment
Unemployed persons have to report once a month to the placement office or at intervals fixed by the competent regional commission to confirm that they are still unemployed in order to ensure that they do not forfeit entitlement to unemployment benefit and are not removed from the register.
Participation in state-aided training/retraining schemes
Unemployed persons who have been allocated places on vocational training courses continue to be counted as unemployed.
Participation in public job creation schemes
Unemployed persons who are temporarily employed in programmes of public interest retain their unemployed status and thus remain registered on the placement lists.
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