Directorate-General for General Affairs and Personnel
This directorate is responsible for the organisation of the offices, staff recruitment and training.
Two services fall within the ambit of this directorate: the central labour inspectorate, and the central service of the labour offices. They deal with personnel matters and the organisation and operation of the labour inspectorate and labour offices; they also supervise and monitor these same offices.
Directorate-General for Labour Relations
This directorate is responsible for: international labour problems and relations with international bodies concerned with labour problems; labour supervision and labour legislation; health and safety at work; employees' family problems; trade unions; collective agreements; employment contracts and labour disputes in various branches of the economy.
Directorate-General for Employment
This directorate is mainly responsible for: analysis of employment problems; employment promo-tion measures; training courses; programmes to integrate unemployed youth into the labour market; monitoring the examination and approval of training-cum-work projects; relations with the central and regional employment commissions, the employ-ment agencies and the bodies for monitoring the labour market; unemployment and domestic and foreign migration: "problems facing non-EU immigrants and their families"; special and ordinary placement (cf. placement procedures); redundancies; compulsory hiring of special categories of workers; free movement of workers within the countries of the EU; emigration to other countries; recruiting and the vocational preparation of emigrant workers; international workers' exchange; assistance to repatriated and emigrating workers and their families.
Directorate-General for Social Insurance and Social Assistance
This directorate is in charge of: international problems of social insurance and assistance; control and administrative supervision of social insurance bodies and remuneration of their staff; problems of financing social security; general, compulsory insurance, wage compensation; family allowances, social assistance and job-security agreements.
Directorate-General for Cooperatives (cooperative movement)
This directorate deals with: economic problems of cooperatives; development and promotion of the cooperative movement; maintaining general file on cooperatives; legal recognition of national associations and consortia of cooperatives; supervision of the management of cooperatives, consortia and associations; dissolution of cooperatives and compulsory liquidations by the admini-stration.
Directorate-General for Monitoring the Labour Market
This directorate is responsible for: general surveys on the employment situation, flows and quantitative and qualitative requirements; employment forecasts; studies on labour market trends; coordination of investigations and surveys carried out at the various "territorial" levels. The directorate also acts as technical secretariat for the central employment commission.
Central Office for Vocational Guidance and Training for Workers
This office deals with: international issues of workers' vocational guidance and training; vocational guidance: the European Social Fund - relations with the regions as regards vocational training - setting up and financing vocational training courses abroad.
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