1. NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

2. National Employment Service
responsible for employment affairs, unemployment insurance affairs, exercise of unemployment insurance rights and keeping records in the field of employment
Employment affairs:
1. Notification on employment opportunities and conditions;
2. Job matching within the country and internationally;
3. Vocational guidance and career counselling;
4. Implementation of active employment policy measures;
5. Issuing work permits to foreigners and stateless persons.
Law on Employment and Unemployment Insurance
(The Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, no. 36/09, 88/10, 38/15) 

3. National Employment Service
Territorial coverage
Organisational structure:
- Head Office-Belgrade
- Branch Offices in 34 Serbian towns
- 140 organisational units – employment offices and local offices in all Serbian towns.
Data base of unemployed persons
The largest data base of unemployed persons, persons who wish to change their job and other job seekers.
Developed and IT-supported system for maintaining employment registries, facilitating efficient selection of candidates and monitoring the implementation and effects of active employment policy measures.

4. Operational documents
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
Documents
Legal documents
Law on Employment and Unemployment Insurance
Law on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities
Rulebooks, Statute, bylaws, etc.
Strategic documents
National Employment Strategy
Strategy for Promoting the Position of Persons with Disabilities
Vocational Guidance and Counselling Strategy
Strategy for Improvement of the Status of Roma Population in the Republic of Serbia
Poverty Reduction Strategy, etc.
Operational documents
National Employment Action Plan
Work Programme of NES

5. National Employment Action Plan for 2015
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
National Employment Action Plan for 2015
Employment policy priorities
improvement of labour market conditions and promotion of labour market institutions,
enhancing the employment and social inclusion of hard-to-employ persons and providing support to regional and local employment policies,
enhancing the labour force quality and investment in human capital
Disadvantaged / priority groups
youth up to 30,
persons over 50,
redundant workers,
Roma people,
persons with disabilities

6. www.nsz.gov.rs NES Work Programme 2015
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES Work Programme 2015
Job placement services for job seekers
Visits to employers
Job placement services
Vacancy registration filing in NES Branch Offices
Vacancy registration filing via NES web site (Internet job matching)
Employment counselling and development of Individual Employment Plan
Active job seeking measures
Job clubs
Active job search training
Self-efficiency training 2
Workshop on how to manage stress induced by job loss
Vocational guidance and career counselling
Providing information on career development opportunities
Information and Vocational Counselling Centres, NES web site
Counselling on career development opportunities
Selection and classification
Employment subsidies to employers
Subsidies for creation of new jobs
Subsidies for employment of financial social assistance beneficiaries

7. NES Work Programme 2015 www.nsz.gov.rs Support to self-employment
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES Work Programme 2015
Support to self-employment
Educational programme in entrepreneurship
Self-employment subsidies
Additional education and training
On-job training
Practical vocational training
Training at employer’s request
Training in response to labour market needs
Recognition of prior learning
Public works
Projects

8. National Employment Service Work with persons with disabilities

9. Persons with disabilities by disability categories
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
Persons with disabilities by disability categories
Unemployed person with disabilities
a person aged 15-65, who is willing to work or accept vocational rehabilitation for the purpose of employment, who actively seeks for job and is registered with NES.
The following categories have the status of disabled persons:
1) disabled military servants (1500);
2) categorised persons: persons with vision/hearing impairment, persons with low-grade mental retardation or complex retardation and persons with physical disabilities (4049);
3) persons with work-related disability (2337);
4) persons whose working ability has been assessed (7193);

10. Total number of unemployed PWDs
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
Total number of unemployed persons
Total number of unemployed PWDs
15.407
(aug/sep.2015)
I-II
Ed.level
III-IV
VI-VIII
Youth up to 30
30-50
over 50
6370
8128
909
2680
6669
5878

11. A concept of vocational rehabilitation of PWDs
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
A concept of vocational rehabilitation of PWDs 1.
Registering in the unemployment register 2.
Individual employment plan and employability assessment 3.
Working ability assessment
Determination of the status of person with disability
Assigning of professional rehabilitation measure 4.
Development and implementation of ALMP measures
Prioritised and/or targeted inclusion of PWD 5.
Employment

12. Active labour market policy measures for PWDs
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES Work Programme
Active labour market policy measures for PWDs
Vocational rehabilitation measures and activities
Active job search trainings
Job clubs
Job fair
Trainings
Internship
Employment support programmes
Subsidised income for PWDs without previous working experience
Self-employment subsidies
Subsidies for creation of new jobs
Public works
Supportive measures
Reimbursement of workplace adjustment costs
Reimbursement of work assistance costs
Working ability assessment
Aiming at employment or retaining current employment

13. NES -Trans2Work www.nsz.gov.rs WP АCТ NES PARTICIPATION WP 1
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES -Trans2Work WP
АCТ
NES PARTICIPATION
WP 1
PREPARATION
DEV.1.1
Identify and analyze the needs of employers
provision of information about employers’ needs for hiring PWDs (available vacancies and required applicants’ qualifications) and the needs of employers’ benefiting from the NES financial support programmes
DEV.1.3
Benchmarking transition and employment policy
exchange of information about the model of PWD employment policy in Serbia, exchange of experience in the implementation of active labour market measures and networking with regional partners in this field

14. NES -Trans2Work www.nsz.gov.rs WP АCТ NES PARTICIPATION WP 2
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES -Trans2Work WP
АCТ
NES PARTICIPATION
WP 2
DEVELOPMENT
DEV 2.1
Web based tool for employers
The responsibility for developing, maintaining and managing the web-based tool will be borne by the project partner University of Kragujevac. NES will contribute to the development of the web-based tool by providing information about its activities related to the work with PWDs and about current programmes for vocational education and employment. As part of this activity, we will also consider the possibility of creating an online content adapted for persons with impaired vision or hearing and the possibility of linking the existing web site of NES with the new web-based tool.
DEV 2.2
Web based tool for PWDs

15. NES -Trans2Work www.nsz.gov.rs WP АCТ NES PARTICIPATION WP 3
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES -Trans2Work WP
АCТ
NES PARTICIPATION
WP 3
DEVELOPMENT
DEV 3.3
Design recruitment guidelines for employers opening positions for
students/university graduates with disabilities
Based on the experience and practice of NES in developing and implementing active labour market measures, job placement, individual work with PWDs and maintaining contacts with employers recruiting PWDs. The designed guidelines for employers are significant for the work of NES, considering the need to develop standards in the field of vocational rehabilitation of PWDs and introduction of programmes of labour-social integration of adults.

16. NES -Trans2Work www.nsz.gov.rs WP АCТ NES PARTICIPATION WP 4
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES -Trans2Work WP
АCТ
NES PARTICIPATION
WP 4
DEVELOPMENT
DEV 4.2
Training of employers
Training modules will be developed in cooperation with project partners – higher education institutions, taking into account the activities of NES in the field of vocational rehabilitation of PWDs. Persons with disabilities will be provided training in development of their job-seeking skills, aimed at preparing them for the labour market as best as possible. The NES can contribute by providing the Active Job Search Training or Job Club services.
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DEV 4.4
Training of PWDs

17. NES -Trans2Work www.nsz.gov.rs WP АCТ NES PARTICIPATION DISSEMINATION
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES -Trans2Work WP
АCТ
NES PARTICIPATION
DISSEMINATION
DISS 7.3
Raising awareness and motivation to employers and families
Full NES contribution to this activity, in accordance with the competences and available capacities
DISS 7.4
Raising awareness and motivation to HE students with disabilities

18. NES -Trans2Work www.nsz.gov.rs WP’ s NES PARTICIPATION QUALITY PLAN
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NES -Trans2Work
WP’ s
NES PARTICIPATION
QUALITY PLAN
МANAGEMENT
ЕXPLOITATION
Full NES contribution to this activity in accordance with the competences and available capacities. Establishment of the Project Implementation Team .

19. ТRANS2WORK NES www.nsz.gov.rs
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
ТRANS2WORK NES
exchange of experience and good practice among institutions in the region;
cooperation with higher education institutions and associations of PWDs with a view to preventing long-term unemployment of young highly qualified PWDs;
improvement of NES work with PWDs and employers
provision of more intense and targeted support to PWDs transitioning from school to work
promotion of PWD employment, employers’ sensitisation and awareness raising
development of a website that is better tailored to the needs of PWDs and introduction of new contents for PWDs
development of an integrated support model, which would be provided to the unemployed PWDs by university career centres and the NES

20. NES PROJECT TEAM www.nsz.gov.rs
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
NES PROJECT TEAM
Sandra Scumpia, Project Coordinator, NES
(social worker), Project Development and Implementation Officer
Biljana Todorovic, PT member, NES
(surdo educator), PWD Training Counsellor
Irena Rakic, PT member, NES
(social worker), PWD Employment Counsellor
Ilija Knezevic, PT member, NES
(economist) Advisor for External Financial Transactions

21. NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
October 2015
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE