The Montenegrin government has issued a new set of economic aid measures that would help support up to 100,000 people working for thousands of companies. It proposed that direct grants be given to businesses and entrepreneurs that were forced to close the government’s actions taken to curb the coronavirus epidemic. These companies would receive 70 percent of the minimum wage for each of their employees for the months of April and May. The state would also cover 100 percent of tax and social contributions for each registered employee. Another proposal is that parents who had to stay home to take care of children under 11 should receive €255 for two months (70 percent of the minimum wage), as should employees forced into quarantine or isolation. Micro-firms as well as SMEs would receive subsidies in the same amount for six months for any employees they hire during the month of April, on condition that they’d been registered as unemployed.
