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Agriculture and tourism are those sectors that have huge potential for creating new jobs in Azerbaijan, the chairman of the parliament’s social policy committee, Khady Radzhabli, told the international conference entitled “The role of the state employment service in ensuring decent work: modern approaches and priorities.”
The conference took place in Baku on October 26 and was organized by the Azerbaijani Labour and Social Protection Ministry and the International Labour Organization.
“Over the past eight years more than 900,000 new jobs were created in Azerbaijan. Different areas of the agricultural sector and tourist services provide vast potential for the creation of new jobs in the country,” Radzhabli said.
He noted that for around three years Azerbaijan has been drafting a law on social services that if adopted will become a milestone as concerns the improvement of social welfare of the country’s population.
“The law will allow to enlarge the scope of social services and increase the number of state-run structures and non-governmental organizations engaged in providing social services,” the parliamentarian said.
Azerbaijani Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alakbarov noted that Azerbaijan’s priority in decent work promotion is attraction of highly skilled workforce.
“Along with this another priority for maintaining the economic growth rates is to develop the local workforce potential,” he said.
Alakbarov underlined that informal unemployment that hampers decent work promotion remains an important problem for the ministry to resolve.
“To resolve this problem it is not enough to take administrative measures, it is necessary to boost cooperation with social partners,” Alakbarov said.
Source: trend.az
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