President signs Law on Employment Services

A new law gives labour offices the authority to determine how often the unemployed must come in and prove they are looking for work, the SITA newswire wrote.

A new law gives labour offices the authority to determine how often the unemployed must come in and prove they are looking for work, the SITA newswire wrote.

The minimum frequency will be once a month.

Currently, long-term unemployed have to come in once a week and other unemployed have to come once every two weeks. SITA

Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports

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