The round table: „ROAD TO RECOVERY: Active measures of employment as a response to economic crisis“

Centre for Policy and Governance within its program „Road to recovery“, on 07/03/2013 organized the round table „Road to recovery: Active measures of employment as a response to economic crisis“. At the round table active measures of employment by EU countries were presented, which are aimed to decrease unemployment and their application on labor market in BiH.

Panelists at the round table were Anes Mrakul and Lejla Dragnić from CPU, Kenan Rešo director of Federal employment bureau, Alija Remzo Bakšić director of Association of employers BiH, and Edin Mehić owner of the portal posao.ba.

Rešo presented employment measures implemented by the Bureau and their effects on employment. He concluded that best results come from subsidies for self-employment and vocational retraining, and less effects by employment for a period of one year.

Bakšić emphasized the need of lower fiscal and para-fiscal burden on production, for these measures would create space for new jobs.

Edin Mehić spoke of trends of employment in FBiH, amd mentioned that according to some research 75% of youth want employment in public sector and only small part consider employment in real sector. Mehić also emphasizes that BiH poses a competitive market on which the employers look for labor force, but that market is still small.

Also, all the participants of the round table emphasized the need for establishing a better connection between the education system and labor market, in order to end the production of staff for unemployment statistics, but staff that is needed on labor market.