İSTİHDAM SEFERBERLİĞİ 2019

CAMPAIGN FOR EMPLOYMENT

Campaign for employment 2019 Presentation Meeting was hosted by Turkish Union Of Chambers And Exchange Commodities President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and Family, Labor and Social Services Minister Zehra Zumrut Selcuk, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy attended.

TOBB President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, in his speech at the opening of the meeting, said that they were working together with the Minister Selçuk and Minister Albayrak on the issue of initiating employment mobilization, and that the incentives were designed with the positive views of the two ministers. Hisarcıklıoğlu reminded that the draft law was added to the bag law and was quickly passed through the Assembly and published in the Official Gazette. He aslo said that I would like to thank you in the presence of such fast-moving ministers for the Turkish business world. Here we are starting 2019 Employment Mobilization with you. We are taking the first step towards the call for employment mobilization of the President and initiating the campaign. Our motto is 'This is Turkey here have business'. As TOBB, our sector councils and chambers-exchanges, we will introduce this campaign in 81 provinces and 160 districts in the most common way and work to ensure the widest participation. I'm also here's to all our business and employers called Turkey's confidence in the strength and future, take part in the employment campaign, benefit from these historical supports. At least one unemployed by hiring our citizens and contribute to the growth of the economy not only you develop your business, but also in Turkey by investing in the future be a winner.

In his speech, Family, Labor and Social Services Minister Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk said that the country's economy has shown a rapid growth trend in the last 16 years but that it has been exposed to serious risks in the last five years.

Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak recalled that they discussed the steps to be taken in order to reduce the effects of the economic process in the country on SMEs, industrialists and tradesmen.

Reminding that they also explained important packages in the access to finance, Albayrak said that in January, we gave the good news of a loan package of 20 billion liras for our SMEs with the participation of 13 banks. As of today, 67 thousand 438 SMEs have been provided with 20.3 billion credits, a new package is coming in. We will announce it this week and in the same way that our tradesmen are given 10 billion pounds in 3 months of our year through Halkbank. We have reached the amount of 238 million pounds. By the end of February, we will have spent 7.5 billion pounds, and perhaps in the middle of March, we will have a loan package of 10 billion liras to our tradesmen. "