Time's up for Statements and corrections to previous statements of businesses regarding the state compensation pertaining to the Easter Gift 2020.
Today, Friday, January 22, the deadline the two-week period granted by the Ministry of Labor for the option to:
- submission to the «Ergani» from the form «Affidavit by Businesses and Employers Regarding the Easter holiday bonus »for the year 2020, to be covered by the state budget" as an initial statement for those businesses–employers They have not submitted a request to that effect to date.
- resubmission of the same form as a «Corrected Resubmission», in order to correct any errors that may have crept in during the initial filing (for example: incorrect amounts per beneficiary an employee in connection with the days suspension and the gross earnings, incorrect, unacceptable, or obsolete IBAN etc.)
Before submitting the corrections using the corrected version form, the employers who were excluded from his payments Easter Gift They can search for the most recent statement and, by clicking the «Overview» button, find out the reasons for being excluded from payments.
In cases where the error message displayed is «Unacceptable payment amount,» for employees whose VAT NUMBER In the fields that appear, you must enter amounts that meet the criteria for calculating the subsidy for the Easter gift.
If the correct amounts have not been entered when submitting the form, a message appears showing the number of days of suspension through April 30, 2020, and the gross earnings calculated based on the information submitted in the «Ergani»forms used as the basis for the calculations.".
It should be noted that, specifically for the Easter Gift 2020 It was stipulated that the government would cover the portion of the bonus pertaining to the period of suspension, calculated based on the nominal salary. Thus, the portion of the Easter bonus covering the period from March 15 to April 30 is borne by the state budget, at least for employees who were in parole the entire period in question.
Employers were required to pay their employees the full Easter bonus by 30/June 30, 2020, and then submitted an application to receive the portion covered by the state national budget. There were, however, dozens of employers who told «Ergani» that they had paid exorbitant sums—even more than one million euros—to their employees as… Easter bonuses during the quarantine. Specifically, four companies requested amounts exceeding one million euros for a single employee, while 11 companies reported amounts exceeding 500,000 euros.
Specifically, the following cases were identified:
- A sole proprietorship claimed 1,742,280.42 euros for one of its employees, whose salary of 1,153 euros was reported to «Ergani»
- A sole proprietorship claimed 1,471,959.70 euros for an employee whose salary, as reported to «Ergani,» was 979 euros
- A company requested 1,119,845.42 euros for one of its employees, whose salary was reported to «Ergani» as 979 euros
- A company claimed 1,031,235.12 euros for an employee whose salary, as reported to «Ergani,» was 572 euros.
In addition to these four companies that reported amounts exceeding one million, there were a total of 11 companies that reported amounts exceeding 500,000 euros. In total, there were approximately 100 companies that reported «inflated» amounts.
