Positive difference in the number of employees and laid off workers – 3,151 people, showed the analysis of the Agency for Employment for the period between December 18 last year and 20 January last year.
According to the Director of AERM, Vlatko Popovski with these numbers for the first time in 20 years we have positive difference in hiring and layoffs.
- It always happen in December, January and February to have stagnation and rising of the unemployment, and in March decrease of this number. This time we have inverse situation, which is very good thing. We have 10,749 employees but parallel we have 6373 layoffs or positive difference of about 3,000 newly created jobs, said Popovski.
Today at the Club of the Centre for Employment in Skopje, Popovski on the meeting with unemployed debated the possibilities offered by the Agency for Employment and their remarks on implementation of the measures.
Despite the elections, inform from the Agency, they continue to implement active employment measures. Yesterday they received official approval for that from the Commission for Prevention of Corruption.
- We can continue with the implementation of the measures because they do not affect electoral politics or the Election Code. On Monday, will be announced the three measures that were stopped earlier this week, training drivers for D category, the first chance for youth training and subsidized employment. Later we will continue with internships, training for known employer and all measures that follow, Popovski said.
He appeals to unemployed regularly to report to the Agency for employment if they want to be beneficiaries of the measures from the operational plan for employment, and also to leave the correct data for the phone number and address when they are registering.
The Agency on December 30 opened the SMS communicators, but according Popovski, many telephone numbers are incorrect. Most unemployed finish their job and give real information, but about 20 percent gave inaccurate numbers and addresses. That is real problem for us and we are not able to provide them with information on time. During the check with AEC, we found that most of those numbers are not there. If we follow the Law, we should begin with charges for misdemeanor, which we would not like, as anyone who makes statement stating that under moral and criminal responsibility data should be accurate, said Popovski.
The Agency announced to make new examination of the data left by the unemployed people at the end of the month. If in meantime those who gave false information do not correct them, Popovski announced that would grant permission to the Department of Legal Affairs to prepare reports and penalties.
- We do not want to reach this level. It is important for us to have accurate data so we would know who to inform, stated Popovski.