Serbian National Employment Service Director Radovan Ristanovic said today that nearly 20,000 people who registered with this agency have managed to find jobs in 2005, which is an 11 percent increase against 2004.
At a press conference held in Novi Sad today, Ristanovic said that all those people found employment thanks to direct engagement of the Serbian National Employment Service, while a total of 20,000 people who were at one point registered with the service managed to find jobs in 2005.
He announced that the essential objectives of the service in 2006 will be the creation of an action plan for employment in Serbia in the 2006-2008 period, reformation of the National Employment Service and introduction of changes and amendments to the Law on employment.
Ristanovic said that 896,190 people are registered as unemployed in Serbia and expressed conviction that the newly introduced changes to the Law on health care will bring about a reduction in that number.
Assistant Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy Radmila Katic-Bukumiric said that the changes to the Law on employment envisaging provisions for employers who hire from the rolls of the registered unemployed so that the grey economy will be suppressed and increase the number of employed persons in Serbia.
Provincial Secretary of Labour and Employment Miroslav Vasin said that the decentralisation of activities of the National Employment Service will bring the resolution of the issue of unemployment down to the local level and recalled that the setting up of the Employment Council in Vojvodina's municipalities is under way.