Budapest, November 2, 1999
On Monday, Minister for Family Protection and Social Affairs Péter Harrach and Matáv's Chairman-Chief Executive Officer Elek Straub signed an agreement on creating opportunities for teleworking in Hungary. Teleworking can help, among others, disadvantaged and disabled workers and persons with restricted mobility in terms of job creation and job preservation.
According to the agreement the major responsibilities of Távmunka Kht.
(a non-profit public company for teleworking), that has recently been
transferred to the joint ownership of MATÁV and the Ministry for Family
Protection and Social Affairs, are as follows: exploration of telejobs,
spreading new working forms in Hungary, job center services, employee
lending, organization of telejobs, preparation and implementation of
teleworking ventures.
The agreement sets forth that Távmunka Kht.'s experience will be used
by the Ministry for legislation on teleworking. MATÁV agrees to involve
Távmunka Kht. in tasks related to development, implementation and
spreading in Hungary of new forms of content services supported by
telecommunications tools. To enable efficient work of Távmunka Kht.
MATÁV will make its technical facilities fully accessible and offer
discount telecommunications packages (including the necessary computers
and software) to employers that wish to use teleworking.