The Republic Statistics Office (RZS) said on Friday that a labor force survey showed that almost 2.9 people were employed in Serbia in the second quarter of 2024. “According to the LFS data for the second quarter 2024, the number of the employed persons was 2,899,700, the number of the unemployed persons was 257,800, while […]
Read moreFor more than a decade, over 25,000 people have permanently left Serbia each year, says a recent study titled “The Mobility of Serbia’s Workforce,” conducted by the Institute for Development and Innovation. While Serbian citizens mostly head to Germany and the U.S, Serbia has, in the first seven months of this year, issued around 50,000 […]
Read moreTo strengthen social dialogue in Serbia so that the government, employers and trade unions can jointly create an environment where the rights and obligations of workers and employers are well-balanced, contributing to the development of a more stable, equal and successful society, the ILO, with funding from the European Union, launched a new project “Strengthening […]
Read moreThe President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, stated this evening that the entire public sector will receive a salary increase of eight percent, while teachers and preschool educators will receive a 12 percent raise. “If inflation is 4.2 percent, this constitutes a real increase in the standard of living, not only for our teachers, but also […]
Read moreIn Serbia, 14,309 small enterprises and 93,573 micro-sized companies submitted financial reports to the Serbian Business Registers Agency in 2023. While small enterprises saw a 6.6% annual growth, the number of micro companies actually decreased by 2.6%. In the total number of business entities in the country, small enterprises account for about 12.5%, while micro-enterprises […]
Read moreIT professionals in Serbia typically stay with a company for a few years on average, a trend largely influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent slowdown in the industry. While everyone hopes for market stabilization, experts in the sector remain divided on whether the future will bring even more pronounced workforce turnover. However, it […]
Read moreAfter the session of the Socio-Economic Council, representatives of the trade unions, employers, and the Government addressed the public regarding the results of their talks about increasing minimum wage. Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević announced that, for the first time in six years, the minimum wage was agreed upon during the session, meaning that the […]
Read moreThe Serbian Employers’ Union has not yet proposed a specific amount by which the minimum wage should be increased, but it underlines that the most important parameters for businesses in Serbia are the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation. “The unions have come forward with their proposal. We haven’t yet presented a specific […]
Read moreThe Office for Dual Education and the National Qualifications Framework have launched two competitions worth 48 million dinars for the allocation of grants in the 2024/2025 school year. One competition is aimed at students enrolled in dual education for in-demand professions, while the other is for employers to subsidize part of the compensation for work-based […]
Read moreLabour inspectors say that foreign workers in Serbia are mainly young people, most often unskilled or having up to a medium level of professional education, while undocumented workers are often beneficiaries of financial benefits, social welfare and other various state benefits. In 2023, the Labour Inspectorate conducted 66,896 inspections mostly of undocumented workers whose number […]
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