According to the amendments, the persons receiving an unemployment allowance are required to notify in writing the employment agency to which they are recorded, about the occurrence of a temporary working incapacity and to provide the identification data of the prescribing doctor and the unit in which the prescriber operates, within 24 hours from the date of getting the sick leave. Otherwise, this period shall not be considered a suspension period, but an unemployment period.
In addition, the measures of employment stimulation – which are financed from the unemployment insurance budget and which, in order to be granted, require contracts or agreements signed with employment agencies – shall be granted according to the amount limits approved in the unemployment insurance fund having this destination.