Arseniy Yatsenyuk supports the establishment of National Employment Agency

"We should encourage not to register in the employment service, but to create jobs and find work through registration of a new National Employment Agency," Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk at a board meeting of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine on Monday, 20 July.

By registering with the employment service, he recalled, a person receives an unemployment payment for several months: "We need a mechanism in order to enable and motivate a person to get a job. Our task is to provide him/her with it."

"You must not be a red tape state structure, but actually a classical company with human recourses», the Prime Minister said.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk underlined that the National Employment Agency would provide services to those who look for work, want to change a job and pass retraining: - "to those who needs changes in his working life."

The Prime Minister emphasized that earlier employment service had spent hundreds of millions of hryvnias, "for the purchase of ten times more expensive computer equipment, office building, money laundering and corruption."

"Let’s put up the shutters," he stressed. Let’s get rid of extra offices, get rid of extra staff, of ten times more payment for software that is still part of corruption in the system today. Clean up everything you can," Arseniy Yatsenyuk pointed out.

The Prime Minister recalled that the Employment Service budget is about UAH8 billion: "If these funds are properly distributed, they can serve as not only social benefits, but also as a real mechanism for creating jobs."

For this purpose, Arseniy Yatsenyuk emphasized, cooperation between the agency and employers is needed: "We need to tie up their demand with our supply."

According to him, employers "must also bear their social burden", including the training and re-training: "It is necessary that they identify clearly the needs of their companies for the next ten years. If you want to develop your business, then the basis of business - it's not the tools and machines. The base for business is a person who possesses knowledge and is able to work. "

Arseniy Yatsenyuk also stressed the need to tie up the state order directly with the labor market.