Organizacja holenderskiej służby zatrudnienia

Abstract

The article discusses the organizational structure and principles of activity of the Dutch public employment service. It operates in conditions of a market economy and it is composed of the following organizational units: the Central Employment Bureau, the Regional Employment Bureaus, the Employment Bureaus, and the Occupational Training Centres. On Boards of each of these units there are representatives of federations of employers, trade unions, and government officials. Such organization of these bureaus not only makes the State responsible for formulation of the employment policy but it allows for such policy to be created by entities influencing directly the processes occurring on the labour market. Executive decisions are decentralized. They are made in the regional bureaus, with allowances being made for specific characteristics of local labour markets. The main tasks of an employment bureau include intermediary functions in finding jobs, training and requalifying the unemployed In the process of adapting qualifications of the unemployed to requirements of the market an important role is played by the so-called ’collective labour agreements’ and branch employment plans. Owing to the separation of intermediary and socio-welfare (provision of unemployment benefits for unemployed persons) functions, the Dutch employment service can better solve the problems existing on particular labour markets. The organizational solutions presented in the article may serve as models, which could be partly borrowed by the institutional sphere of the Polish labour market.