Łódzki system pośrednictwa pracy
Abstract
At the present time we have special administrative units dealing with employment in
Poland such as employment agencies. They are responsible for performing public functions
satisfying the needs of employers and employees or regulating their behaviours on the labour
market. As regards the importance of tasks accomplished, a special role is played by district employment agencies. That is why they have become an object of analysis in this report,
which does not mean that the activity of other institutions within this system has been passed
unnoticed. Focussing attention on district employment agencies is due to the fact that these
institutions, being organs of the state administration, are responsible for the employment
policy pursued by the State and for the reduction of unemployment in their areas. They also
carry the main responsibility for employment services.
The paper is of a theoretical-empirical character and it is composed of four parts. Its
first part shows the role and importance of employment agencies against the background of
legal regulations. The second part describes the methods and funds of employment agencies,
which allow to reduce unemployment. Economic difficulties and emerging social conflicts make
it necessary for employment agencies to participate actively in the fight against unemployment.
It is a very complex task not easy to solve particularly at the time the State copes with
a financial crisis. The third part of the report is focussed on the system of employment
agencies in the city of Łódź. It analyzes the conditions in which they operate (premises,
personnel, technical problems), and changes in unemployment rates. The operation of one
such agency has been evaluated with regard to active forms of employment services curbing
unemployment used by it. This approach allowed to identify various problems acting as
constraints for employment agencies during the period of systemic changes in the economy.
The performed studies allowed to map out the directions of evolution in the system of
employment agencies in the fourth part of the report. The author analyzes the possibility of
tapping the Polish and foreign experience. We are aware that it should be done with a great
deal of caution, because specific economic and social conditions in the Administrative Province
of Łódź cause that models already tested elsewhere are not always adequate to our conditions
and expectations.
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