📋 Tender Overview
Today, the government discussed and adopted the starting points for the preparation of the Strategy for the Elimination of Precarity. The systemic elimination of precariousness is one of the coalition commitments of the current government, which goes hand in hand with the Directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which was also recently adopted in the European Parliament and will have to be transposed into Slovenian legal order within two years.
Precarization, which manifests itself in the ever-increasing increase in atypical forms of work, brings negative consequences on both the micro and macro levels. On a micro level, we are talking about the negative effects of precarization as the absence of minimum legal, economic and social security for workers. At the macro level, it concerns the effects of precarization on the existence and maintenance of social security systems.
Objectives and areas of action
The purpose of the strategy is to prepare a concrete set of measures with which the Government of the Republic of Slovenia will address the precariousness, which will then be implemented within the framework of the prepared action plan. In addition to the introductory part, which will summarize the results of the MAPA survey, the strategy will contain a division by individual areas and risks, as well as concrete measures, which will represent solutions for perceived risks. We will also encourage discussion of measures that indirectly affect precariousness, such as statutory reduction of the possible range of working hours, which is considered full-time.
Measures
The concrete measures that will be proposed in the strategy will be determined on the basis of the MAPA survey and on the basis of interdepartmental coordination and social dialogue, where the starting point will be proposed measures in the following areas:
Virtual self-employed and disguised employment : The strategy aims to clarify the definition of employment to be consistent with the rise of new forms of work.
Strengthening of supervisory institutions and their actions : We will examine and propose measures to facilitate the recognition and sanctioning of violations, to strengthen cooperation between authorities, and to improve the flow of information.
Agency work and other multi-party relationships : We will propose measures to address the use of agency work to replace permanent employment and measures to address sham referrals and other abuses in practice.
Platform work : Based on the adopted directive, we will propose measures that will address the unclear labor law status of persons who work via online platforms.
Student work : We will address measures to strengthen the social security of students and improve the legal position of students on the labor market, such as e.g. recognition of experience gained through student work.
Taxes and social security : We will examine and propose measures that will address fair inclusion and treatment in the taxation and social security systems.
Social dialogue : We will propose measures that will strengthen access to social dialogue even for those who work in a position that is similar or comparable to the position of employees.
After the adoption of the starting points for the strategy by the Government, the appointment and preparation of the final version of the strategy follows within the working group with social partners and experts. The final version of the strategy will be adopted by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia by the end of the calendar year.
Based on the identified risks, the strategy will contain three categories of measures. The first will be short term. These are mainly those where the solutions have already been developed and only need to be properly incorporated into the legislation. Others will be medium-term measures, which require a certain amount of coordination and the search for the best solutions. The third will be long-term, for which a wider reflection needs to be done and are currently in the form of a conceptual design.
