CPP's Youth Division: We want equality between the public and private sector on the labor market

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Zagreb, 17th of February 2014 - Organised by the 4th Department of CPP's Political Academy and Youth Division, a round table discussion was held on the subject of "Liberalisation of the labor market as a prerequisite of the possibility of new employment". CPP's Youth Division introduced a liberal platform in the area of the labor market and education which ties into their booklet from last year in which they expressed a series of points of view about various policies.

"Our message here is that we want equality on the labor market and in education and the equality between the public and private sector. We want to clearly say stop to any kind of discrimination and we want the labor market to finally be defragmented", said Daniel Hinšt, member of the Presidency of CPP's Youth Division. "On the one hand we have fixed-term contracts, on the other indefinite period contracts. We have a too protected public sector with strong collective contracts, on the other hand we have a private sector which itself says it didn't undertake this sacrifice. The key thing is for everyone to have equal possibiliity on the labor market, and they will be achieved only when restrictions which have been proven to lead nowhere are lifted and which create apparent social security, and actually result in high youth unemployment", said Hinšt.

Low participation in the labor market, high youth unemployment and an educational system which, according to the opinion of CPP's Youth Division, needs to change in most of its segments are the key problems. A program which CPP's Youth Division will soon officially announce is in conjunction with liberal standards, earlier CPP programs, as well as programs of young European liberals (LYMEC).

"One of the key policies for all of us liberals is the flexibilisation of the labor market", said Hinšt. To the opponents of any kind of change to the labor Law he said that insecurity and uncertainty are facts which aren't new to the market. "It is always important for us to see the final result, that is the goal, and that is that we want a society in which, through the increase of enterpreneurial and economic freedoms, more opportunities for employment will be created. The role of the state in that is to ensure as better and easier a framework for that as possible", he concluded. He also warned about the importance of the sinergy between the state, the employers and the education system in order to define the skills needed on the labor market.

Professor Darko Polšek from Zagreb's Philosophical Faculty spoke about changes in the world and Croatia's possible adaptations of the educational system, and Mislav Balković from Croatia's Association of employers gave the association's recommendations for the development of the education system.

The round table was opened by the president of CPP's Youth Division Zvonimir Klobučar and political analyst and coordinator of the 5th Department of CPP's Political Academy (the Department for the public) Davor Gjenero.