Director General: Damjana Košir

Phone: +386 1 369 76 04

Fax: +386 1 369 76 69

E-mail: damjana.kosir(at)gov.si

The employment, restructuring and vocational education field covers responsibility for employment policy at home and abroad, unemployment insurance and the provision of grants for vocational education. One of the main tasks in this mandate will be the realisation of the strategic goals of labour market development and employment policy.

These are:

• raising the level of education and vocational qualifications of the active population;
• reducing structural distortions, meaning a reduction of the proportion of long-term unemployed people and the proportion of unemployed people with no vocational education;
• inclusion in active programmes of all young unemployed people who have failed to find new employment within 6 months, and of all others who have failed to find employment within 12 months;
• reduction of regional differences in the labour market;
• employment growth averaging in the period up to 2006 more than 1% annually through faster economic growth, which will enable reduction of the unemployment rate to around 5% under the international methodology, or to 8% registered rate of unemployment by the end of 2006;
• further development of the social partnership.
  

In this area, the ministry is preparing legislative arrangements for the recognition of the qualifications of citizens of member states to perform regulated occupations in RS, and is continuing other tasks required for Slovenia's accession to the EU, particularly in the area of labour market development and the free flow of goods. The ministry is also preparing an act on amendments and supplements to the Employment and Unemployment Insurance Act.