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Placement of New Employees1. Employment Track -As part of the employment track, assistance is provided inrespect of engagement of employees in the form of the paymentof grants as a percentage of the employees' salaries. Three aidschemes are operating in this framework.A. An employment track in which assistance is provided for 30months on two subsidiary tracks:1. The general track in the "outlying areas" - a graduatedamount of assistance is provided, varying between 15%- 30% during the first 10 months, 5% - 10% during thelast 10 months depending on the size of the Company. InDevelopment Region A, the aid varies between 5% - 25%depending on the size of the Company.2. The special population group track (minorities, ultraorthodox,handicapped, single parents). The track isavailable all over the country to entrepreneurs who employ90% of these population groups and the amount of aidvaries between 35% in the initial months to 10% in the lastmonths. Minimum employment on these tracks is 5 jobsand the wage ceiling for assistance is NIS 15 thousand.B.Initiatives for development of the outlying regions:Within this framework, aid is provided for two types of enterprises:1. High salary earning enterprises (minimum wage costof 250% of the national average wage). The minimumemployment is 15 employees in the "outlying" regions,when the aid will vary between 35% in the first year and5% in the fourth year. An advance payment will be madewhen the required minimum is reached and with additionalassistance to those taking early steps to recruit employees.2. Firmly based enterprises. In this framework, the assistanceis provided to companies with a turnover of more thanNIS 100 million, and with a minimum employment of 100jobs when the required wage cost is 150% of the nationalaverage wage.C.Sending employees on paid leave (Agreed Leave):Assistance is provided to enterprises that employ more than 25employees, to send employees on paid leave. The employercan remove up to 100 employees from any paid leave cycle fora period of 3 months. During this period, the employer will paythe social benefits for employees up to 18% of the last salaryand high salary unemployment grant. This cost will be financedby the State as a grant to the employer.Further details can be found on the website of the Ministryof Industry, Trade and Employment - Investment Center.46 < Invest in the Negev and Galilee