Labor Minister Zoran Djordjevic believes that unemployment in Serbia, which has fallen below ten percent for the first time, will be lowered by another one or two percent. Djordjevic recalled that the unemployment rate in 2012 was 23.9 percent, and its fall below ten percent is one of the significant results last year.
“We will continue to make unemployment even lower in the coming years. I think we will lower that figure by one or two percent”, Djordjevic said in a statement to Tanjug.
It is important, he says, to invest in workers in order to have certain competencies and skills with which they can earn higher wages. In addition to the fall in unemployment, the occupational code, registers for undeclared workers, pregnant women and maternity wards covering law-abiding businesses, as well as sound effects for the blind and visually impaired at the 509 traffic lights in Belgrade, were marked in 2019 when it comes to the line of business.
Djordjevic also reminded that the Law on Agency Employment was adopted, which, he says, will contribute to the fact that workers who worked in agencies without the right, hot meal, transportation, vacation get all the deserved rights.
According to him, for the first time in 20 years, a new occupational codebook was introduced, for occupations that did not exist two decades ago.
He added that earlier there were many problems regarding the recognition of diplomas, especially those from abroad, and now this deadline has been reduced, and now it is 60 days, while, he reminds, earlier about nostrification of the diploma the waiting was for two to three years.
Continues with increasing appropriations for disability projects as well as veterans and veterans: “For the disabled in 2019, allocations were increased by 30 million, and for veterans, they were increased from about 50 million to 120 million euros. That is the promise I made at the beginning of my term”, said Djordjevic.
He pointed out that for the blind and visually impaired at 509 traffic lights in Belgrade, sound effects and sound signals were installed.
Also, the PIO Fund decided to print all solutions on Braille for the blind and visually impaired.
“I believe that other institutions will take that direction. We have digitized the entire library, which was intended for the blind and partially sighted”, added Djordjevic.
The project, which also marked 2019, cited “Say no to undeclared work”, stating that there were 3,312 fewer people working undeclared in the year, compared to 2018.
“A total of 79 percent of workers received an employment contract after inspection, and we will continue this practice in the future”, said Djordjevic.
He added that in 2019, two registers were established, one covering companies that violated regulations and employed black people, and by the end of the year there were 3,300. The second registry, created in mid-2019, included all those who violated the rights of pregnant women and maternity wives, and a total of 26 companies violated their rights, said Djordjevic in a statement for Tanjug.
