PASOK-KINAL: The country needs a really strong OAED

The country needs a really strong OAED: this was underlined by the head of the Labor and Social Affairs KTE George Moulkiotis and the director of the PASOK-Movement for Change, Thanassis Glavinas, in the meeting they had with representatives of the Federation of OAED Employees at the OAED office. , on the occasion of the forthcoming debate in the Parliament of a bill for the Organization.

For their part, the workers’ representatives -according to a relevant announcement of PASOK-Movement for Change- informed that they completely reject the bill. This is because, as they claimed, on the one hand it degrades OAED by turning it into a service unable to seriously intervene in the fight against unemployment, on the other hand it aims at the -artificial- reduction of the number of unemployed registered with OAED. A number that has exceeded 1.1 million, of which only 200,000 receive unemployment benefits, as reported. And, at the same time, the apprenticeship schools of OAED are further degraded, they added, while at the same time, they argued that the abolition of the independence of the existing branches and accounts within OAED and the transfer of their reserves to the Public Employment Service will result in the impossibility of exercising serious social insurance, for the optional insurance of the elderly unemployed in order to retire, for example.

The representatives of the Movement for Change pointed out that the bill does not address the essential problem of creating quality jobs. They pledged to continue political interventions, so that employment policies are not limited to the development of skills of the workforce and expressed their belief that the country needs a really strong OAED. An OAED that will be an essential arm of a coherent plan to tackle unemployment and create new and quality jobs in sectors with growth potential but also in sectors where our economy has comparative advantages, they also said.