Employment Agency

The Employment Agency (EA) is an executive agency under the Minister of Labour and Social Policy. It is responsible for implementing the state policy in the areas of:

• promotion of employment;

• labour market protection;

• career guidance;

• adult training;

• provision of employment mediation services;

• work with economically inactive persons;

• research and analysis of the country’s labour resources.

Labour Offices

Labour Offices are territorial units of the Employment Agency within the General Directorate “Employment Services”.

Main activities:

1. Registration of job seekers.

2. Services for job seekers:

   • information on advertised vacancies;

   • information on employment and training programmes and measures;

   • mediation in job information and recruitment;

   • professional information, counselling and guidance;

   • vocational and motivational training;

   • inclusion in employment programmes and measures;

   • provision of scholarships for vocational qualification training.

3. Services for employers:

   • information on active job seekers;

   • information on programmes and measures to preserve and promote employment;

   • mediation in workforce recruitment;

   • inclusion in employment programmes and measures;

   • preferences and bonuses for maintaining and/or increasing employment;

   • bonuses for vocational qualification training and/or internships.

4. Other activities:

   • participation in teams developing measures in cases of mass layoffs;

   • involvement in the development of regional and local employment and training programmes;

   • participation in the implementation of national, sectoral, regional and local employment programmes, including for vulnerable groups on the labour market;

   • research on training needs;

   • exchange of information on vacancies and active job seekers;

   • labour market research and monitoring;

   • preparation of analyses and forecasts on the state and trends of the local labour market.