Central

The Government is responsible for:

• Establishing the provisions concerning the termination of employment due to economic reasons affecting large numbers of employees, in the interests of preserving jobs;
• Establishing the mandatory minimum wage and the provisions for the supervision of labour relations;
• Submitting recommendations to define the maximum duration of daily work time and to determine official holidays;
• Determining the system of labour qualification.

The Ministries in charge are the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, the Ministry for National Economy and the Ministry of Human Resources.

The National Employment Service is governed by the Minister responsible for Employment policy. It comprises the National Employment Office (national level), the Labour Centres of Government Offices at County level and the Branch Offices at local level.

The National Employment Office is responsible for:

• Setting down the principles and main content requirements of the Labour Centre's mandatory internal professional policies;
• Determining professional requirements related to service delivery by the Labour Centres, and coordinating their tasks linked to outsourcing labour market services;
• Assisting in the performance of administrative and service delivery functions by working out procedures, methodological guidelines and professional recommendations;
• Developing labour market services;
• Human resources development and professional staff training in the National Employment Service;
• Promoting the fulfilment of tasks arising from International Labour Organisation and EU obligations;
• Governing and coordinating the accomplishment of labour market programmes and implementing labour market programmes approved by the Labour Market Fund;
• Responsible for labour market statistics.

Regional

Regional authorities are responsible for:

• Participating in the coordination of the employment tasks;
• County Labour Centres of Government Offices (part of the National Employment Service) are responsible for:
• Governing and overseeing the activities of the Labour Centre's branch offices;
• Carrying out tasks in connection with subsidies for job creation funded by the centralised portions of the Labour Market Fund's Employment Sub-Fund and of budget appropriations for public works;
• Cooperation with local authorities;
• Drawing up the Labour Centre's internal professional policies;
• Imposing fines.

Local

Local authorities are responsible for:

• Local public employment;
• Branch Offices including service delivery centres in charge of:
• Registering jobseekers, terminating and recovering jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit;
• Tasks related to employment promotion subsidies;
• Labour market services;
• Keep records of reported collective dismissals;
• Job placement;
• Register reported vacancies;
• Provide information and counselling
• Customer service activities;
• EURES-related information provision tasks
• Liaise with employers engaged in the economic life of the County.

The districts of Budapest are responsible for:

• Providing sales opportunities for small-scale producers and licensed traditional producers (to sell products specified in legislation), including weekend markets.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Human Capacities
Ministry of Finance

Sources

All recent legislative changes in Labour laws, Department of Labour Inspections website.

Act XXII of 1992 on the Labour Code, Section 17, p. 5Dr.Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors, PowerPoint presentation on 'The current Labour Market situation in Hungary and the service structure of the Employment Service', 25 January 2011

Government Decree 323/2011 (XII. 28.) on the National Labour Office and the Remit and competence of Policy Agencies under its Professional Governance

Government Decree 315/2010 (XII. 27.) on the National Employment service

2011. évi CLXXXIX. törvényMagyarországhelyiönkormányzatairól[Local Self-Government Act No. CLXXXIX of 28.12.2011]

Government regulation 94/ 2018(V.22)  on tasks and powers of members of the Government (94/2018. (V. 22.) Korm. rendelet

a Kormánytagjainak feladat- és hatásköréről

The Government's policy on public employment is successful ( Sikeres a kormány közfoglalkoztatási politikája)

2018

The new system of public employment has answered  expectations (A közfoglalkoztatás új rendszere beváltotta a hozzá fűzött reményeket)

2017