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Employment news from Slovakia
New tool in monitoring employee productivity
To be an employer in the 21st century is, more and more, to be required to provide employees with technology and a means of accessing the internet.
HR requires creative approach
Slovak companies compete locally but also with foreign firms. With an improving economy, the labour market is reviving, posing new challenges for employers.
Succession planning is a necessity
Passing a family business is a long-term process.
Unemployment keeps decreasing
The labour market brings positive news.
Lack of skilled labour main challenge
Changes to education necessary to fix high structural unemployment
Measures to boost employment draw mixed reviews
Critics cite need for more systemic changes.
Slovaks prefer to work in IT, trade and industry
SLOVAKS would most like to work in companies dealing with IT and telecommunications, trade, and industrial production and construction.
VW voted best employer of 2015
BRATISLAVA-based carmaker Volkswagen Slovakia is popular among people due to its strong brand, job certainty, long-term tradition, and also salaries and various benefits.
Slovak salaries continued increasing
THE OVERALL average salary in Slovakia amounted to €934 gross in 2015.
Jobless rate drops below 11 percent
THE NUMBER of jobless in Slovakia is the lowest since March 2009, and it is expected to continue decreasing.
Slovak labour market lacking qualified workers
Most in demand are ITC specialists, linguists and researchers.
Slovakia faces brain drain, émigrés prevail over immigrants
LAST year, Slovakia witnessed the situation in which the number of people in of productive age who left the country was higher than of those who arrived, according to the data of the Demographic Research Centre (VDC).
Dual education starts
But students are not as interested as expected
Availability of skilled workforce still among Slovakia’s main strengths
Slovakia no longer offers the 19-percent corporate tax and low labour costs that attracted many investors in the country a decade ago. However, it still boasts tradition in a number of industries that investors find a useful basis for their businesses in the country, as well as labour force with, for instance, decent language skills.
Unemployment rate continues to fall
Employer groups contend that more labour policy reforms are still needed
Brain drain of Slovakia goes on
Slovaks keep leaving their homeland to find better work and quality of life abroad.
PM: Quality employees are needed on the labour market
IT IS not possible to keep the positive trends on the labour market and favourable economic development without the quality labour market, said Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Survey: Salaries of women and men are incomparable
THE GLOBAL gender gap report by the World Economic Forum placed Slovakia as 97th out of 145 countries surveyed.
Nearly 24,000 foreigners work in Slovakia
MORE than 23,600 foreigners were working in Slovakia in the end of September.
ICT is the best paying sector in Slovakia
PwC carried out the 23rd edition of the remuneration study PayWell.
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