Ilham Aliyev urged not to cut jobs

30.01.2019 11:00

'Last year, 118,000 new jobs were created in Azerbaijan. This is a good number. The process of creating jobs should be permanent, and the private sector should play a major role in this area,' Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a conference on the results of the implementation of the State Program on the socio-economic development of Azerbaijani regions in 2014-2018, Azerbaijan State News Agency informs.

'Increasing employment is a very serious matter. The population of some countries is not growing, of some is decreasing. And the population of Azerbaijan is growing. I have already noted that over the past 15 years, the population of Azerbaijan has increased by 1.6 million people. And this requires very serious work from us. Once again I want to say that the increase in jobs is one of the priority issues. In those regions where there was unemployment, we organised social work to combat it. This initiative has been implemented for several years now and thousands of people work in these public works and receive wages,' said the head of state.

The president also noted that in recent years many enterprises have been created, where jobs are being opened.

'My recommendations to entrepreneurs are that they do not cut jobs. Today, all over the world, the trend is such that preference is given to technologies, scientific and technical development provide new technologies, robots replace people, all of this is reality. And we must reckon with this reality. But, at the same time, we in Azerbaijan should save jobs, both in the state and private sectors. The ongoing structural reforms in state institutions should not lead to job cuts, and they have already been warned about it. These structural reforms are aimed at improving governance mechanisms. Of course, employees of public institutions will continue to work in their places. And in the private sector, no reductions should be made, on the contrary - in exchange for such state support, even more jobs should be created,' said Aliyev.

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