2005 Annual Report

Financing the Service

Financing for the activities entrusted to the Service is defined in Article 60 of the Act. Funding for unemployment insurance (benefits and financial assistance during unemployment) is provided partly through contributions (employees from salaries, employers levied on salaries paid) and collected in the budget of the Republic of Slovenia, and partly from other sources in the state budget.

Payroll contributions, which in 2005 were 0.14% of gross salaries for employees and 0.06% of the same amount for employers, raised SIT 5,055,429,000 for the state budget (source: Public Payments Administration). The funds thus raised represent only 18.8% of the funds required to ensure rights arising from unemployment insurance. The remaining funds for this purpose and to finance the area of the labour market, employment and vocational education, as well as the operation of the Service, are provided from other budget sources.

Funding for measures undertaken by the Service and for professional tasks and the operation of the Service for 2005 is defined on a contractual basis with the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs.

Funding totalling SIT 62,409,255,000 was provided within the 2005 state budget to ensure the social-security rights, scholarships and other programmes listed by the Act, and SIT 6,161,719,000 for the operation of the Service.

Structure of expenditure in the Service by basic purpose, 2005

The Service directly and indirectly contributes to increasing employment of the population of Slovenia by:
  • Enabling effective and transparent use of funds intended for the implementation of AEP programme measures for the current year,
  • Promoting and modernising cooperation with employers, and through our public employment agency service, enabling them to select a labour force from official unemployment records in the Republic of Slovenia,
  • Ensuring timely and suitable recognition of material rights of ESS public service users,
  • Providing assistance in the vocational career development for service users,
  • Developing partnerships in human resource development,
  • Being comparable to the best and most efficient public institutions in the EU,
  • Actively striving to increase all types of labour mobility in Slovenia,
  • In cooperation with the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, to creatively and actively contribute to the development of employment policy in Slovenia.

Basic goals of the ESS 

  • To shorten the registration period of unemployed people at the ESS, using an efficient approach
  • To achieve comparability with the EU employment services with the quality development of services
  • To proactively co-operate with the ESS’ partners in order to achieve the key targets of labour market development
  • To release funds for the word with difficult-to-employ people with the development of contemporary forms of work
  • To guarantee the ESS’ users their material rights timely and adequately

Basic activities of the ESS

  • Job mediating and careers advice
  • Implementation of unemployment insurance
  • Employment policy measures and programmes
  • Issuing of employment and work permits for foreign workers
  • National programme of scholarships for young people
  • Formulation of analytical, developmental and other material on basic areas of ESS activity
  • Provision of information on the labour market

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