Text file: 4925.txt
author: Marjan Bizilj
downvotes: 2
end consideration date: 2013-09-18
id: '4925'
number comments: 14
number views: 4261
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities\n\
  In accordance with the above, we would like to inform you that the Ministry of Labour,\
  \ Family and Social Affairs has so far received a considerable number of proposals\
  \ from the web portal Predlagaam.vladi related either to the abolition or reorganisation\
  \ of the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia (hereinafter referred to\
  \ as the \"Service\") or to the reduction of the number of civil servants employed\
  \ there, on which we have provided you with information on the regulation in the\
  \ current legislation, as well as with our own views and information on possible\
  \ measures to improve the functioning of the Service and the quality of the work\
  \ of employment counsellors. We are clearly aware that society's reaction to the\
  \ current difficult labour market situation is justifiably negative, and in view\
  \ of this, the anger and frustration of people who have lost their jobs or are facing\
  \ the prospect of losing their jobs in the near future is inevitable. Notwithstanding\
  \ the above, we are sure that everyone is aware that jobs are created exclusively\
  \ by private sector employers, and that the state is obliged, on the one hand, to\
  \ ensure the most favourable possible business environment and employment conditions,\
  \ and, on the other hand, can only contribute to the creation of new jobs or the\
  \ preservation of existing ones by providing financial incentives to employers,\
  \ either in the form of start-up aid (the economy ministry), or in the form of employment\
  \ subsidies and other active employment policy measures (the ministry of the ministry\
  \ responsible here).\nWith regard to the specific proposal, we would like to inform\
  \ you that it is not possible from a professional point of view to give or take\
  \ a reasoned position on it; in our view, it is not even a proposal, but rather\
  \ a generalised response to the current political and economic situation and the\
  \ resulting events, which we cannot and do not intend to comment on here.\nThe Institute,\
  \ whose position and competences are laid down in the Labour Market Act (Official\
  \ Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, No 80/10, 40/12-ZUJF, 21/13, 63/13-ZIUPTDSV\
  \ and 63/13; hereinafter: ZUTD) in Articles 73 to 84, is the central public institution\
  \ in the labour market and, as a public institution, is organised uniformly for\
  \ the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. Its main task is to work with unemployed\
  \ persons and other jobseekers in the form of job placement and employment counselling,\
  \ lifelong career orientation, the implementation of the unemployment insurance\
  \ system, the implementation of active employment policy measures, as well as the\
  \ production of analytical, development and other professional materials in the\
  \ field of its activity. As the central public institution in the labour market,\
  \ the Agency, in the fulfilment of its mission and tasks, makes an important contribution\
  \ to increasing the employment and employability of the population of Slovenia and\
  \ is a key body for the implementation of the policy of the Government of the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia in relation to the consequences of the global recession on the Slovenian\
  \ labour market. Due to the described function, the Institute represents a key lever\
  \ of the State in solving the unemployment problem and in the integrated treatment\
  \ of unemployed persons and other jobseekers, and is by no means just an (ineffective)\
  \ job placement service.\nAs regards the allegation of artificially reducing the\
  \ official unemployment rate by removing unemployed persons from the unemployment\
  \ register, the legal basis for the termination of the unemployment register is\
  \ laid down in Article 129(1) of the UPLA. The officials in charge of the relevant\
  \ administrative procedures at the Institute are obliged to act in accordance with\
  \ the legal basis laid down and in any event not to take arbitrary decisions. However,\
  \ in accordance with the provisions of the Act on General Administrative Procedure,\
  \ which is applicable as a procedural rule, any unemployed person has the possibility\
  \ to appeal against a decision to terminate his/her registration as an unemployed\
  \ person.\nThe proposal to reduce the number of employees at the Institute in proportion\
  \ to the reduction in the number of jobs in the economy is also unrealistic, both\
  \ from the point of view of the legal regulation of the employment of civil servants\
  \ and from a practical point of view, since a reduction in the number of employees\
  \ in the economy for the Institute only means a higher inflow of unemployed persons\
  \ and, as a consequence, (with virtually unchanged staffing levels) an enormously\
  \ increased volume of work. However, the number of civil servants employed by the\
  \ Institute has already and will continue to decrease compared to recent years,\
  \ despite the increase in the volume of work, as a result of the Government's staffing\
  \ plan.\nIn the light of the above, we believe that in the future efforts should\
  \ be made to make the Institute more efficient, while in our opinion it would be\
  \ neither sensible nor beneficial to abolish the Institute in the current economic\
  \ and social situation of the Republic of Slovenia. Moreover, it is not insignificant\
  \ that any such changes would also require a broad political and social consensus\
  \ and, last but not least, a political decision on their implementation at the highest\
  \ level. In view of the above, we cannot comment more specifically on the proposal,\
  \ which is very general and not very detailed.  \n "
response date: 2013-10-08
response due date: null
sent date: 2013-08-20
title: Abolition of the Employment Service
upvotes: 27
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/4925
