On 20.1.215 I proposed to the government to abolish the workshops at the employment office because citizens in need have no transport and when I received their response the response was scandalous.
I have also pasted the response in the attachment.
Our government spends too much money than it should on workshops, so there is no money for self-employment, for training for the over-30s, for public works, and public works are only for professional jobs, which are only for the few.
Our political elite are sharing our taxpayers' money handsomely, which is why they rejected my proposal.
I therefore call on the government to disclose the total amount it is giving to concessionaires for workshops, and where all this money is going, because we citizens have a right to know.
Partial response from the competent authority.
13 concessions were granted to the individual regional services of the Employment Service of the Republic of Slovenia for a period of three years (2012-2014). At the end of 2014, the Ministry decided to extend the concessions for one more year, i.e. for the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.
 
The lifelong career guidance service under the above-mentioned call for tenders consists of three different types of workshops, namely Type B (Career after 50), Type C (Effective performance on the labour market) and Type D (Counselling room). The aim of the workshops is to provide skills to learn about an individual's interests and competences, the opportunities in the environment, and to learn how to make decisions and achieve employment and career goals. The workshops differ in terms of content and duration, and accordingly target different groups of unemployed people. Workshop type B is aimed at unemployed people aged 50 and over and lasts for three days. Workshop type C is aimed at directly employable people for whom no major barriers to finding a job have been identified, with a duration of six days. The most comprehensive is the Type D workshop, which lasts about two months and is aimed mainly at the long-term unemployed and those who need additional activities to reintegrate into the labour market.
The Ministry concludes a contract with the selected concessionaires for each year of implementation on the financing of the provision of labour market services, specifying the scope of the workshops and the amount of funds to be used to pay for them.  
In 2014, the Ministry allocated just over EUR 1.6 million for the implementation of the workshops. The concessionaires implemented a total of 1 115 workshops out of the planned 1 145, which represents a 97% implementation rate, involving 16 967 unemployed persons. Similarly high realisation rates, as well as the resources allocated to them, were observed in 2012 and 2013, while a slightly lower number of the longest workshop, the D-type workshop, is planned for 2015.
 
Unemployed people often face various hardships after losing their jobs. Involvement in various activities, including workshops, not only helps them to integrate more easily into the labour market, but also to overcome these difficulties, to improve their self-esteem and, last but not least, to stay in touch with the labour market. Their eventual abolition or downscaling would deprive the unemployed of valuable assistance in their reactivation on the labour market.
Participants' responses also indicate that they are satisfied with the workshops and their content. The workshops provide valuable new knowledge on labour market integration, and for many of the participants, attending the workshops is an important motivation to reactivate their job search. In 2014, around 23% of those who attended the workshops were employed as a result of this information, compared to around 38% of those who attended the workshops in 2013.
 
 
 
This is only a partial response from the mission, their statistics are misrepresented, and misleading.
The fact that they remit travel expenses twice a month is also a lie, because I am in the employment service myself, and there are such complications around travel expenses that I would never get.
Even if they really did give travel expenses, those who owe them, some through their own fault and some because the Recession has driven them to lose their jobs, when they receive the money from travel expenses the banks rip them off for their debts, and again the poor are driven deeper into poverty. This system of theirs does not work to solve poverty at all, but to increase it, and I would suggest the following to the government, and I would ask that this be written up in the response of the competent authority, and that the real statistics be shown.
There are a lot of us in the job centre and 99% of us are not happy with your statistics.
 
Suggestions:
 
-save the workshops for the concessionaires as they only have a certain benefit.
-if there must be workshops, much less money should be spent on workshops and workshops should be organised in such a way that travel costs do not have to be paid back (e.g.: if a workshop is held in Nova Gorica, only people from Nova Gorica should go to the workshop, not from Idrija to Nova Gorica, and then workshops should be held in each municipality so that people have as little travel costs as possible).
-the money should be spent on actual employment of the unemployed (e.g.: self-employment subsidies, through public works not for only professional education, subsidies for employers for young and elderly which is not the case now, training at workplaces not only for up to 30 years, training should last up to half a year because then it would be easier for the employer to decide if he would hire an unemployed person, training for the disabled, and lighter public works for the disabled for up to 4 hours a day more than they do not have to do.)
 
-I ask the government to disclose the statistics on their concessionaires, who they are and how much they have received from the duration of the workshops and who actually benefits from the workshops because what they have shown now in the response is totally illogical and I would like to meet these people when they have benefited from the workshops.
And please, in the next response, an explanation, not some vague incitement of the nation in x direction.
If there is no positive response, a referendum will be organised and then it will have to be clarified about all the concessionaires and who actually benefits, and all the background will be clarified.
The response from the competent authority is attached and is totally unclear and misleading, I know many people in the institute and none of them have benefited from these workshops, some of us have barely enough to live on and with the workshops you are taking away what poverty we have, these proposals would reduce unemployment much more than the misleading statistics from the government.
That is why some people cannot pay for school lunches for their children, because they are afraid that if they do not take part in the workshops, they will lose even that little bit. If you do not attend, you are simply removed from the unemployment register, and so you are no longer entitled to any assistance. These workshops are only spreading poverty.