Tag: employment

During the coronavirus crisis, the Government of North Macedonia brought out umbrella policies i.e. an effort to encompass as much people as possible instead of targeted measures for specific groups that were under biggest pressure from the crisis, which would have protected them the  best, stressed Blažen Maleski from the "Reactor - Research in Action" think-tank, during the presentation...

1 49 public administrative workers who were hired according to the Framework Agreement will be allocated in 237 state and local self-government agencies in North Macedonia, and if they refuse thе offered job position, they will be put to the transfer list of the Ministry of Information Society and Administration. If they refuse to work there, their agreement will...

The unemployment is a longstanding problem for Romani women in North Macedonia. Only 4 Romani women are at managerial positions in the 142 monitored public institutions and at other, non-managerial positions, they are present with only 0.47% out of the total number of the employees. Out of 7 647 persons that had been using the active measures and employment...

The Prime Minister and leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev, during yesterday's rally by the presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski in Prilep issued a direct order for the relatives of officials to resign from their working posts. "The State Anti-Corruption Commission is an independent institution and I expect of her to announce the results about the other side as well. They...

In the state administration, local self-government, and public enterprises, 139.009 employees were registered in the joint-stock companies under state ownership. Without temporary employment and without employees in joint-stock companies, there are 128,722 employees across 1,299 institutions, said Minister of Information Society and Administration Damjan Mancevski at today's briefing. Although the Register of Public Sector Employees is not fully functional, for...

A plan for the allocation of jobs in the public sector institutions to 958 people, from a total of 1,600, who are employed in accordance with the Framework Agreement has been created, said Minister of Information Society and Administration Damjan Mancevski and Deputy Prime Minister for implementation of the Framework Agreement, Hazbi Lika. Employees are given a chance to refuse...

Employees receiving salaries under the Ohrid Framework Agreement, and do not attend the workplace, will be deployed in jobs other than public administration, but will also receive offers of work throughout the public sector, for example, in schools, kindergartens, health facilities and public enterprises, stated Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Mancevski. He went on to explain that the...

The EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, promoted the campaign "We Believe In You, We Invest In You, EU for You" with which the European Union will provide 37, 5 million of euros for improving the situation in three sectors: employment, education and social inclusion, which will be financed from the IPA operative program...

SDS are falling into the water with their last desperate attempts of lies and manipulations to gain an extra point with the voters, was the reaction of VMRO-DPMNE after the press conference by government spokesman, Mile Boshnjakovski. The party says that "everything that has been done has been done in accordance with the law, for which a government decision has...

The new government hired a total of 96 people in all institutions together, out of which 32 are special cabinet advisers to ministers, and only 26 employees have been employed in Government, Minister of Information Society and Administration said Damjan Mancevski at a press conference today. All new employments in state institutions were made through previously announced public job vacancies. “In...

Foreign investors invested seven times less than what was announced and there are three times fewer jobs than promised, shows the database "Foreign investment under scrutiny" prepared by the journalistic team BIRN Macedonia. The survey looked at 138 investments which were announced or promoted by the government from 2007 to 2016. It shows that 43 foreign investments were not realized...

The rate of youth unemployment in Macedonia is 52.9%, which ranks the country third on the world list, says the study "Unemployment of Young People in Macedonia" conducted by the "Friedrich Ebert" Foundation this year. The research has shown that 60% of young people above the age of 18, believe that finding work in the country will be difficult. "Personal and political connections...

For the second quarter of the year, according to the State Statistical Office, the unemployment rate is at 24%. The number of the active population is 948,376 people, of which 720,674 are employed and 227,702 are unemployed. In the first quarter of this year, the unemployment rate dropped by 0.5%.

On August 31st, the leaders of the political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement confirmed the date December 11 for early parliamentary elections. The day after, the ruling party began reshuffling the staff at the Ministry of Interior, employment within the ministry and a series of manoeuvres ahead of the early elections. Some experts and opposition parties have characterized these moves...

The Ministry of Interior has published an ad for the recruitment of 600 new police officers, journalists at “Meta” have learned. It will be published and advertised in tomorrow’s “Offical Gazette” and tomorrow's editions of the daily newspapers. From what can be understood from the advertisement so far, they are looking to enroll another 600 police officers for work at...

Today the "Colourful Revolution" are demonstrating against the "selling" of workers on minimum wages, and hurled paint at the Employment Agency (ESA) and the Ministry of Economy, and chanted "The Youth are Gone, Party Members are In," and "Party Membership, and Through the Door you Go!". Before the protesters, spoke several students and a professor from the Faculty of Economics, Biljana Sekulovska-Gaber, who...

The leader of the ruling party Nikola Gruevski said that while VMRO-DPMNE are working on realizing projects, the SDSM are basing their campaign on the work of the Special Prosecutor's Office. "Regarding the case that was opened yesterday by the Special Public Prosecutor, I think it is clear to the citizens what is happening, why its happening and what their...

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE announced a new measure aimed at young people, called "Youth Ambassadors". The activity is aimed at students that will win a prize to one of the 12 International Science Olympics. “For the gold medal, a high school student will get 12,000 denars each month all year. For the silver medal, the winner will be paid after 12...

115 persons were employed and 12 opened their own business through projects from USAID's internship for employment of persons with disabilities, which has been functioning since August 2012. "So far, the project has trained 417 people on the topic of job search strategies for people with disabilities, 49 people with disabilities successfully completed training for entrepreneurship and 37 people attended the...

From the 600 new police officers to be recruited, 46 will be Albanian, The process for the selection of candidates who will offered positions as officers for the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is in its final phase of being prepared. Meaning, that very soon 600 new officers in police blue uniforms, reported the Albanian daily newspaper 'Koha' today. Sources...