YEREVAN, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN. One-day seminar on the theme "Social Partnership in Armenia" dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the "State Employment Service" was held in Yerevan on April 4. As Sona Haroutiunian, the agency Chief mentioned, the law "On Social Defence in the Case of Employment and Unemployment of Population" functioning from January, 2006, had an essential role in the affair of implementation of reforms in the employment sphere. He stated that a national strategic program of the sphere of employment was at present worked out. It will be presented to the RA Government's adoption in 2008. Anahit Parsadanian, the Chief of the Labour Market Analysis and Foresight Department of the agency mentioned that as of March 1, the level of unemployement in the republic made 7.2% what reduced 5% as if compared with the same day of the previous year. In her words, 102.6 thousand people searching a job were registered at the agency in the same month, and 1400 vacancies, mainly for workers' professions, were presented by employees during the month. 650 unemployed people found work in January-February. Women made 56% of them.

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