20.2.13

The Minister of Labor Giannis Vroutsis has reactivated the National Employment Committee, which will convene on Tuesday the 26th of February, the first time in 3.5 years.

According to the ministry, the Committee will deal with the mobilization and coordination of political, social and production forces, to combat unemployment and to take initiatives for the redesign and reevaluation of current projects, in order to improve efficiency.

The National Employment Committee is composed of representatives from employee and employer unions and other social bodies, as well as political representatives; specifically the Minister and Deputy Minister of Labor, the general secretaries of the ministries of Finances, Internal Affairs, Administrative Reform, Growth, Education and Labor, as well as a host of other bodies and institutions.