Slovenia Provides For Partial Reimbursement Of Salaries To Employers Hit By Coronavirus

To limit the economic consequences of the coronavirus epidemic The Slovenian Parliament has adopted the Intervention Act on Measures in the Field of Salaries and Contributions ('Intervention Act') which provides for the possibility of (partial) reimbursement of salary payments to employers.

Reimbursement of salary compensation will be available:

To employers who cannot provide work to more than 30% of their employees and send them home to wait for work. In this case, the state will reimburse 40% of the salary costs to the employer, while the employer bears 60% of the cost. The maximum amount of reimbursement is limited to the maximum amount of compensation for unemployment (currently EUR 892.50 gross). If a healthy employee is ordered to stay in quarantine and cannot work from home. In this case the state will reimburse to the entire cost of the employee's salary compensation, i.e. 80% of the employee's average salary in the last three months. The reimbursement of salary set out in the Intervention Act is not general: it will only be available to employers who fulfil the conditions set forth in the law. These include that the employer must:

Submit a description of its business situation due to the COVID-19 virus (key information that must be included in this description is set out in the law). Prove that based on the business situation described, the employer cannot temporarily provide work to at least 30% of its employees at once and has therefore ordered employees to wait for work at home. Submit a written statement committing to preserve the jobs of employees waiting for work at home for at least six months after the start of the waiting for work at home period. For requests for reimbursement of salary payments for quarantined employees, employers must submit a decision on quarantine issued by the...