Organization : Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs & Family
Type of Facility : Jobseekers Register
Country: Slovakia
Website : http://www.upsvar.sk/obcan/kto-moze-byt-evidovany-na-urade.html?page_id=12847
Jobseekers Register :
Registration with the Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (hereinafter referred to as “the Office”) is voluntary; the citizen is not statutorily obligated to be on the Jobseekers Register at the Office of LSAF but, as a voluntarily unemployed person, is obliged to pay his/her health insurance.
Related : Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs & Family Employment Permit & Blue EU Card For Foreign Citizens Slovakia : www.statusin.org/9586.html
A citizen who is able to work, available for work and actively looking for work can be registered at the Office.
When filing a citizen in the Jobseekers Register it is established whether the citizen:
** is not a natural person (under the Labour Code), or a legal person in an employment relationship, or in an equivalent employment relation (for example, under the Commercial Code),
** does not operate or engage in self-employment,
** does not carry out gainful activity in a Member State of the EU or abroad,
** carries out gainful activity for which the wage or remuneration does not exceed the prescribed amount of 143,40 €. (The job seeker supplies the facts on the amount of wages or remuneration from gainful activity at regular monthly intervals, always for the preceding calendar month, at a date to be set by the Office employee; if the amount of wages or remuneration for carrying out gainful employment exceeds the amount of 143,40 €, the job seeker shall be removed from the register).
A citizen of the EU cannot be filed in the Jobseekers Register, where he or she:
** is pursuing compulsory school attendance, namely until the end of the academic year in which he or she reaches 16 years of age,
** is in continuous preparation for a vocation,
** is temporarily incapacitated for work,
** is entitled to maternity allowance,
** has been awarded old-age pension, or is a citizen who has been awarded invalidity pension and has reached the age required for entitlement to old-age pension,
** has been removed from the Jobseekers Register at his/her own request, or for non-cooperation with the Office – as a sanction for the duration of 3 months,
** has discontinued the operations or the engagement in self-employment, for which the Office provided a contribution, before the completion of 2 years from the start of the operations or engagement in self-employment,
** engages in self-employment in respect of which the wages or remuneration exceed the prescribed amount of 143,40 € .
If a citizen of the EU resolves that he or she wishes to be registered in the Jobseekers Register at the Office after termination of employment, he/she has to file an application for registration in the Jobseekers Register in the place of his/her permanent residence. The citizen can receive (the application form for registration directly at the Office).
l have terminated my employment , what should I do ?:
Registration with the Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (hereinafter referred to as “the Office”) is voluntary; the citizen is not statutorily obliged to be on the Jobseekers Register of the Office but, as a voluntarily unemployed person, is obliged to pay his or her health insurance.
Where a EU citizen wishes to register with the Office, he or she has to file in person the application for registration in the Jobseekers Register of the Office in the territorial district of his or her place of permanent residence, (the application form for registration is available directly from the Office).
If the EU citizen files for registration as a job seeker within 7 calendar days** after termination of the employment relationship, he/she will be registered from the day following the termination of employment (see registration requirements ). If the citizen files the application for registration upon the expiry of 7 calendar days from the date of the termination of employment, he/she will be entered in the register from the date of his/her personal submission of the application.
A citizen of the EU who files for registration in the Jobseekers Register shall supply to the Office the following documents with his/her application:
** a valid identity document,
** a copy of the document of the termination of employment relationship,
** a copy of the certificate of the duration of employment,
** a copy of the document testifying to the highest education received /the general certificate of secondary education, the degree/ .
In filing the application the Office employee shall provide the citizen with the information on registration requirements at the Office and on the rise of entitlement to the unemployment benefit while advising him/her that the award and payment of the benefit is in the competence of the Social Insurance Agency, i.e., that job seeker submits the application and the documents necessary for the assessment of the rise of entitlement to unemployment benefit to the territorially competent branch of the Social Insurance Agency. The forms necessary for the unemployment benefit claim can be collected at the Office.
The Office shall provide the job seeker with:
** the information on job vacancies and on options of job search available (the employment service is free of charge);
** information and counselling services (career advice, selecting a job and the employee’s adaptation to a new job);
** professional counselling services (drawing up the individual action plan, individual and group counselling);
** active labour market measures (training and preparation for the labour market and allowances, such as allowance for self-employment, allowance for moving place in search of work, transport allowance to employment …).
There are rights and also certain obligations that follow out of the registration of the EU citizen in the Jobseekers Register of the Office.
If the job seeker is sick and cannot come to the Office, he/she is obliged to notify this fact to the Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (in person, by phone, by mail…) and subsequently have the certificate of temporary incapacity for work issued. The job seeker shall supply the start of the temporary incapacity for work within 3 days of the issue date; the termination thereof shall be supplied in person on the working day following the termination of temporary incapacity for work.
If the jobseeker supplies the certificate of temporary incapacity for work, he/she shall not be required to demonstrate job search and come to the Office for fixed contacts.