2019 has begun anxiously for the employees at the unemployment office. In the beginning of the year were given notice 4.500 employees for termination, and in march presented the service’s management with a proposal to 130 out of a total of 242 local offices around the country should be put down.
– warnings cover is fixed. On one hand, the more tasks can now be carried out by independent actors, but also that we have fewer new arrivals. This means that it is reasonable with fewer employees at the employment service, although of course it is tough to have to do it so quickly, ” said Ylva Johansson.
the Conservatives and christian democrat budget shrinks funding to the employment service but also to the settlement between S, MP, C, and L contains the extensive changes of the business. Above all, it is the Centre party, which has pushed for the employment service to be reformed fundamentally.
– With this assignment we show the employment that this reform is serious. Now they have to work in order to fully prepare for the not-for-profit and private stakeholders, ” says Martin Ådahl, C’s labour market policy spokesperson.
to the public employment service no longer should devote themselves to conveying the job, but rather to the authority for a range of private actors rather than to assist the job seekers. The public employment service will also be engaged in analytical activities and labour market assessments, as well as retain the responsibility for the disabled and etableringsuppdraget.
– the employment service will remain and will continue to be a large and important government agency with many tasks, even if the armor and the matching shall be carried out by independent actors, ” says Ylva Johansson.
the government decided that the employment service should begin to prepare for the transition. It is, inter alia, to create a system of control of the private operators, and a model for how they should be replaced. The employment agency shall also review how the availability and the local presence should be developed.
– the employment service must be left to the independent operators who can take over. You have an obligation as a government to have a presence all over the country and be able to provide service, ” says Ylva Johansson.
if in the country in the provision of service to deteriorate, with the Employment offices will disappear. In the remit from the government includes the employment service to review how well the authority shall be represented in the government, so-called service centre already from 2020.
– There is currently a misunderstanding at the employment service, to centralize authority. This reform requires, on the contrary, a decentralized authority. Since the employment agency had misinterpreted what the reform foundations is on the field, so we have clarified that they must have a local presence across the country, ” says Martin Ådahl.
should be initiated as soon as possible and authority should be assigned to specifically point out which parts of the reform which are possible to complete earlier than 2021. The employment agency shall report the assignment to the government by 1 november 2019.
the Government intends to initiate the reform of the public employment service in 2020 and will be fully implemented in 2021.
– It is a big change and I hope it will be a clearer mission for the authority. It is not so that we throw everything up in the air and see how it lands, very much should continue to be conducted at the employment agency, ” says Ylva Johansson.
Martin Ådahl (C) is convinced that the private arbetsförmedlarna will succeed better with getting people into jobs than the public employment service managed.
– Despite the fact that the employment service adds tens of thousands of dollars per year and the unemployed have not even in the boom times managed to get more than a very small proportion of the unemployed into the work with its own funds. The bureaucracy costs a lot but does not help the unemployed, particularly the most vulnerable, ” he says.
Previous attempts by private job coaches have not fallen particularly well-but Martin Ådahl mean that you now learned from the mistakes.
– The most fundamental error was that the private operators, then got so big compensation only by addressing people, so that they could live on it. Then received a number of operators, as most only placed people in various inefficient activities. It is a mistake that we will never do, ” says Martin Ådahl.
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