The Agency for Labor and Employment of Bosnia and Herzegovina states that mediation in the employment of our workers abroad is carried out through international agreements concluded by Bosnia and Herzegovina with other countries, with the aim of enabling legal and orderly employment and protection of workers.
– Those contracts are the basic instruments for the safety and protection of workers working abroad. Thanks to the employment agreements, and our role in the implementation of the agreement, we have had no cases of fraud during employment abroad. Also, employment agreements give us the opportunity to react in cases of violation of employment contracts and the rights of our workers, which the Labor and Employment Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina used to protect workers from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Slovenia, they state.
They claim that in addition to the safety and protection of our workers, employment agreements enable the monitoring and management of labor migration.
– In this way, we mediate in the employment of only those profiles that are numerous on the records of the unemployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In doing so, we are guided by data from the records of unemployed persons that are regularly submitted to us by the employment offices of both entities and Brčko District of BiH. Also, thanks to our role, all workers who go abroad through interstate agreements are properly deregistered from the records of unemployed persons, they state.
They add that, since employment agreements are the most effective instrument in monitoring labor migration, the BiH Labor and Employment Agency will advocate that such agreements be created when importing labor to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
– In the end, we must emphasize that the number of departures for work from Bosnia and Herzegovina has nothing to do with the mediation of the Agency for Labor and Employment of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but with the working conditions and the price of work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For example, in the years before the BiH Labor and Employment Agency began to mediate in the employment of our workers in Slovenia, the number of work permits issued in Slovenia was 43,604 permits (2008) or 19,185 permits (2011). In 2024, the number of issued work permits amounted to 13,436, of which 5,825 permits were related to mediation by the Agency, and the rest to the reissuance of work permits to workers already in Slovenia, the reaction states and adds:
– As an example, we can cite Croatia, with which we do not have an employment agreement, and where mediation does not go through the Agency for Labor and Employment of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the number of work permits for our workers in 2023 was 29,648. Therefore, it is evident that labor migration cannot be stopped, and what we can do is to ensure that the workers who decide to leave are safe, protected, and that there is accurate data on labor migration.
(Vijesti.ba)
