EC reports moderate preparation of Serbia in the field of employment
According to the report of the European Commission, the unemployment rate on the Serbian labor market has decreased in compared to the same period in the fourth quarter of 2022.
A great importance for the assessment of labor and social rights in Serbia, as well as for the functioning of the local labor market, is attributed to the report of the European Commission (EC). The EC reports that the country is moderately prepared in terms of social policy and employment. First of all, it praised Serbia for some progress in relation to last year’s recommendations with the adoption of the new Law on Safety and Health at Work, which is partially aligned with the legal legislation of the European Union.
However, with regard to labor legislation, the country hasn’t fully aligned amendments to the Labor Law of 2014 with European Union law and has to begin the work on the draft of the new Labor Law, including provisions for foreign posted workers in accordance with EU law, in order to avoid further delay of the implementation of the Chapter 19 action plan. Meanwhile, they haven’t passed the new Strikes Act yet, and it needs to change the legal framework in order to strengthen bipartite and tripartite social dialogue at all levels. As Politika reported, this is especially true if the assessment that the social dialogue in Serbia is assessed as very weak, especially in relation to the participation of the social partners in the development of important policies for them, is taken into account.
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Read moreThere are over 14,000 foreign workers in Kazakhstan
According to the data of the Kazakh Labor and Special Protection Ministry’s press service from June 1, 2024 cited by Kazinform News Agency, local executive bodies gave work permits to some 13,937 foreign nationals allowing them to legally work in Kazakhstan.
Foreign labor is currently being attracted to Kazakhstan by 1,789 employers. They also employ 443,400 Kazakh citizens which makes 99.2% of the total employees working for them.
The construction sector engages the highest number of foreign employees (4,403 people), then follow agriculture, forestry, and fishery (1,817), administrative and support services (1,684), the mining industry (1,387) and manufacturing (1,275).
China (3,938 people), Uzbekistan (1,919), India (1,145) and Türkiye (1,101) are the countries where most of the labor migrants arrived from.
A quota for attracting foreign specialists to the republic is annually established and distributed by the Labor and Special Protection Ministry in order to protect the domestic labor market. They set the total quota for 2024 at 0.23% of the labor force in the republic, or 22 jobs.
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The positive side of the Serbian labor market is the decrease in the unemployment rate compared to the same period in the fourth quarter of 2022, the report of the European Commission showed. The report of the European Commission (EC) is of great importance for the assessment of labor and social rights in Serbia, as […]
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