EU gives Nokia employees in Jucu EUR 200 allowance for job interviews

The employees who were made redundant from the Jucu plant in Cluj run by Finnish company Nokia will receive an EUR 100- EUR 200 ‘allowance for job interviews.’

The money should be spent by the former employees on clothes, shaving and hair cuts which should make them presentable when going to job interviews.

The funds come from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, which considered this initiative an ’innovative’one,

”When we subnitted the file for obtaining funds from the EGAF, we asked if it would be possible to finance such an ’interview allowance’ and we were answered that this is a very good idea. It was considered an innovative proposal. Thus, the 1,400 employees of Nokia who will subscribe to the professional reintegration program will receive money for clothes, hair cuts, shaving, transportation, meals and accommodation so that they will be presentable for the next job interviews. Such an  allowance is EUR 100 but there is the possibility to grant two of them, if they participate to a second job interview,” said Daniel Don, director of the Agency for the Labor Force Occupancy in Cluj, qioted by Mediafax newswire.
Otilia Haraga

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