Cabinet adopts National Employment Strategy until 2025

The Montenegrin Cabinet, at today's session, adopted the National Employment Strategy 2021-2025 with the Action Plan for 2022.

The strategic goal of the employment policy until 2025 refers to stable and sustainable employment growth, which is based on equal opportunities for access to the labour market, decent work, further development of knowledge and skills and greater social inclusion. The vision of this document is to establish an inclusive and functional labour market.

The strategy defines four operational goals, the first of which is the achievement of employment growth, investment in high-quality and safe jobs, through the improvement of the business environment.

The second operational goal is to create knowledge and competencies for the labour market in the digital age; this goal refers to the improvement of the labour supply and qualifications, addressing structural weaknesses in the education and training system, especially bearing in mind the new approach based on digitalisation.

The third goal is to improve the position of the unemployed people in the labour market through the efficiency of services and active employment policy measures and to strengthen social inclusion and reduce poverty.

The efficient functioning of the labour market, as the fourth goal, will provide the necessary flexibility for employers in terms of rapid adaptation to economic and labour market changes. It is very important to ensure the rights of employees and social protection, as well as a healthy and safe working environment. Strengthening labour market institutions is crucial to achieving this goal.