Armenia
Overview of national employment policies
- Has national employment policy
- Yes
- Adoption of national employment policies
- 1ST revision in 2012
- Is the NEP under revision?
- Yes
Dialogue and stakeholders in the formulation process
- National
- Ministry in charge of economy/planning/finance
- Yes
- Ministry in charge of employment
- Yes
- Sectoral ministries
- Yes
- Trade unions
- Yes
- children
- -
- UN agencies
- Yes
- Civil society groups, such as women or youth associations
- Yes
- Employers’ organisations
- Yes
- ILO
- Yes
- Regional
- No
- Local
- No
- N.A.
- -
Coordinating actor in formulating the employment policy
- Ministry in charge of employment/labour
- Yes
- Ministry in charge of economy/finance/planning
- -
- Sectoral ministry
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
Employment policy goals
- Economic growth
- -
- Decent work
- -
- Employment as central to development strategy
- -
- Employment creation /promotion
- Yes
- Ensure equal opportunities / prevent discrimination in employment
- -
- Freely chosen employment
- -
- Full employment
- -
- Poverty reduction
- -
- Productive employment
- -
- Protection of workers' rights
- -
- Reduce unemployment
- -
- Reduce underemployment
- -
- Social inclusion
- Yes
- Environment/green jobs
- -
- Other
- Yes
- N.A.
- -
Additional information:
The objective of employment policy as a component of economic policy is to ensure the effective implementation of the necessary quantity and quality of labour supply and labour demand, which should be considered as a main condition for sustainable economic growth. The objective of employment policy as a component of social policy is to ensure the definition and effective integration of uncompetitive groups in the labour market and guarantee decent working conditions consistent with internationally accepted standards, which should be considered as the main condition for weakening the social tension in the country.Strategic objectives
- Strategic objectives
- The main directions and implementation mechanisms of the policy are:
1) Provision of relevance of economy with labour market
2) Ensuring linkage between labour market and educational system
3) Promotion of balanced demographic and regional development
4) State regulation of labour market
5) The aimed management of the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation process of the annual Program of State regulation of Labour Market
6) State regulation of labour remuneration and productivity
7) The state regulation of work relations and its supervision
8) Social partnership
9) Legal provision
10) Provision of information.
Employment targets
- Employment opportunities
- Yes
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- Yes
- Decent hours
- -
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- Yes
Additional information:
- The number of disabled persons included in programs (Target Indicator 3), – 2013 growth rate has to equal to 50 percent compare to the annual average of 2008-2011 and from 2014-2018 record a 50 percent growth rate compared to the previous year. - Employment rate calculated by National Statistical Service ILCS (Target Indicator 1) – 2013-2018 annual rate of decline being equal to 0.35% percentage points. - The Government program for 2012-2017 plans creation of 100,000 jobs. - The share of unemployed who have acquired the right to unemployment benefit compared with the number of unemployed actively looking for job included in different programs (Target Indicator 4) – 2013 reduction rate compared with 2008-2011 must equal to 10 percentage points and from 2014-2018 the annual rate of reduction must equal to 10 percentage points compared to the previous year. - The size of minimum salary (Target Indicator 8) – 2013-2018 annual growth rate in comparison with last year according to MTEF. - In annual state regulation programs of labour market (hereafter programs) the number of beneficiaries (Target Indicator 2) – 2013 growth rate has to be 18 percent compared with average indicator for 2008-and from 2014-2018 record a 5 percent annual growth rate. - The coefficient of sustained employment as a result of programs or State Employment Service Agency mediation (Target Indicator 5) – 2013 growth rate compared to 2008-2011 has to equal to 4.5 percentage points and from 2014-2018 the annual growth rate is planned to equal to 2 percentage points compared with previous year’s rate. - The number of vacant jobs collected by the State Employment Service Agency and excluding duplicated information (no double reporting of results) (Target Indicator 6) – 2013 growth rate compared with annual average of 2008-2011 will have to equal to 60 percent and from 2014-2018 with annual growth rate of 10 percent. - Financial resourced allocated from state budget (Target Iindicator 7) – 2013 growth rate compared to annual average allocation from 2008-2011 will equal to 18% and from 2014-2018, the annual growth rate will equal to 5%.Action plan for implementation
- National action plan
- Yes
- Subnational action plan
- -
Coordination framework
- NEP coordination framework?
- No
Monitoring indicators
- Employment opportunities
- Yes
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- Yes
- Decent hours
- -
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- Yes
Additional information:
- Number of disabled persons included in [government] programs. - Employment rate calculated by National Statistical Service ILCS. - Number of jobs created. - Share of unemployed who have acquired the right to unemployment benefit compared with the number of unemployed actively looking for job included in different programs. - Annual growth rate of the minimum wage. - Annual growth rate of the number of beneficiaries of annual state labour market programmes. - Annual growth rate coefficient of sustained employment as a result of programs or State Employment Service Agency mediation. - Annual growth rate of the number of vacant jobs collected by the State Employment Service Agency and excluding duplicated information (no double reporting of results). - Annual growth rate of financial resources allocated from the state budget.Target groups
- Youth
- -
- Women
- -
- Informal workers
- -
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Older persons
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Migrants workers
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
- No target group
- -