The outlying island of Kinmen yesterday said that 300 short-term jobs are to be provided for the unemployed.
The employment is to be offered by Kinmen County Government agencies — mostly cleaning work — from Jan. 4 through the end of next year, the government said.
It is to be the 14th year that the Kinmen County Government has offered short-term employment to the county’s jobless.
About one third of the 300 jobs are to be offered to disadvantaged — including disabled — people from low-income families and those who have suffered domestic violence, been in prison or had drug addictions.
The county is to take applications from those who are interested in the short-term job program from today through Saturday.
The authorities in Kinmen are scheduled to draw lots on Dec. 11 to decide who is to get the jobs.
The county said that an applicant may file their application once to an agency under the county government, but if the applicant is found to have submitted two or more applications to various agencies they would be disqualified from the lot drawing.
The results are scheduled to be publicized on the county government’s Web site, and also in the Kinmen Daily News on Dec. 14.
For those who received the jobs, under the terms of the program they are to be paid NT$877 per day with a maximum of 22 working days per month, the county said, adding that employees would be entitled to labor insurance and national health insurance.
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