Central
Central government is responsible for:
- Overall employment and labour policy;
- Implementation of the Law on New Labour, 2014, which saw to an easing of employment protection (from previously being one of the strictest policies in Europe);
- Regulation of terms of employment;
- Labour market and active employment policy;
- Social partnership and relations with trade unions and employers' associations;
- Improvement of the system at work;
- Pension insurance system and policy;
- Unemployment benefits;
- Monitoring frameworks and compliance assessments on EU regulations;
- Labour status of Croatians employed abroad, their return and employment in the country;
- Working status of foreigners employed in Republic of Croatia.
Regional
Regional authorities have responsibilities to:
- Establish a regional economic and social committee (a consultative body for tripartite cooperation);
- Establish a regional development agency;
- Keep records and issue certificates of unemployment etc., mediate between employers and persons seeking jobs, monitor the needs of workers;
- Organise and implement, independently or in cooperation with social partners, educational institutions and other legal persons, vocational guidance and education programs and other forms of active employment policy;
- Cooperate with educational institutions;
- Monitor the implementation of education programs;
- Carry out the employment of Croatians abroad and protect their rights;
- Submit to the Government of the Republic of Croatia and to the Economic and Social Council once a year a report on the work of the Institute.
Local
Local authorities have responsibilities for:
- Establishment a local economic and social committee (a consultative body for tripartite cooperation);
- Employment intermediary;
- Monitoring and updating data on unemployed persons;
- Implementing active employment policy measures and conducting vocational training;
- Advocating and protection of temporarily unemployed persons;
- Sharing information about the unemployment rate at the local level.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Central
Regional
Local
Sources
Ministry of Labour and Pension System.
Law on Labour Market (NN 93/14)
Law on Employment Promotion (NN 57/12, 120/12 and 16/17)
Law on work - editorially cleared text, (NN 93/2014 and 127/2017)
Decision on the provision of Law on amendments to the Law on work
Law on Labour Market (NN 118/18)