As unemployment in Lithuania keeps rising, Social Security Minister Monika Navickienė vows to reorganise the country's Employment Service.
“The reorganisation of the Employment Service is the key item on our agenda,” the minister said in an interview with BNS.
Navickienė says she will seek to ensure that only people with real motivation to look for work would register with the Employment Service.
Moreover, there are plans to upgrade the agency's information system, she says, and to create a ‘dating site’ to match up job seekers and employers.
“We now have some 11,400 vacancies and a high number of people out of work. The Employment Service's main function is to help match demand and supply, resolve logistical problems,” the minister said.
The key function of the Employment Service would remain to raise job seekers' qualifications to the level needed for an employer, or provide opportunities for people to re-qualify and acquire new skills, Navickienė said.
Particular focus will be on helping young people and those approaching retirement age to find a job, she said.
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