Moscow hosts international seminar of public employment services
On September 17-18, Russia’s Federal Service for Labour and Employment (Rostrud) held an international seminar for members of the World Association of Public Employment Services focusing on models of public employment service (PES): centralized and decentralized.
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This seminar focused on how centralized and decentralized administrative models of public employment service influenced the efficiency and quality of PES service delivery, the decision making and adaptivity to the constantly changing labour market.
“This seminar gives us a unique opportunity to exchange experience and study advanced employment practices,” Rostrud chief Vsevolod Vukolov said in his opening remarks to the seminar.
“The ILO works actively with WAPES to help national employment services meet labour market challenges through knowledge-sharing, training activities and technical expertise,” Dimitrina Dimitrova said, adding that WAPES was co-founded by the ILO and six national public employment services in 1988 and currently has over 80 members.
The seminar “will help discuss the way ahead in enhancing the PES’s role as a reliable provider of labour market services, as a strong hub of labour market competences, and a key actor, contributing to a smooth labour market in the times of continued economic uncertainty and recession”, she said..
One of the sessions focusing on opportunities and challenges in the implementation of employment promotion programmes in the context of two PES models was moderated by ILO Moscow Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva.
In the course of the seminar participants had the opportunity to specify advantages and disadvantages of centralization and decentralization, define its nature, investigate its historical development and exchange best practices on the topic.
Source: rostrud.ru