About Us

Azerbaijan Public Employment Agency (Agency) is a public legal entity created under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the purpose of implementing the economic and social policy of the state in the direction of the development of labour relations and ensuring full employment. In the history of independent Azerbaijan, the first institution created to ensure the employment of the population was the Head Employment Branch, which started operating on August 1, 1991, in accordance with Decision No. 211 dated June 12, 1991.

 

Taking into account the need to serve the citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan, on February 16, 2011, the State Employment Service under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population (MLSPP) was established on the basis of the Head Employment Branch. During the next 10 years, the activity of the Service was further diversified and expanded, and on December 30, 2019, the State Employment Agency was established as a public legal entity on the basis of the State Employment Service under the MLSPP.

 

On June 30, 2020, the "Statute of the State Employment Agency" was approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

 

At present, the Agency is implementing various services in the direction of promoting and ensuring the employment of the population. Organization of active labour market policies, management of unemployment insurance funds, measures related to social protection of jobseekers and unemployed persons, monitoring of compliance with the requirements of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "On Employment", as well as analysis of the labour market and the implementation of control measures related to detection and prevention of the informal employment together with the relevant state bodies (institutions), organization of awareness raising measures (hereinafter - the relevant field) are among the services provided by the Agency.

 

In organizing the activities of the Agency, the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, international treaties that are signed and ratified by the Republic of Azerbaijan, the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Statute of the Agency, related decrees and orders of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, decisions and orders of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, normative and legal acts of the MLSPP, and the orders and decrees of the Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population of the Republic of Azerbaijan are guided. The Agency cooperates and implements joint projects with state and local self-government bodies, trade unions, international and non-governmental organizations, legal entities and individuals.

 

The Agency's activities include the following:

 

  • to ensure the development of the relevant field;
  • to make proposals to the Ministry regarding the formulation of state policy in the relevant field;
  • to ensure the implementation of state policy in the relevant field;
  • to cooperate with related state bodies (institutions) in the relevant field;
  • to participate in the development and implementation of proposals in the relevant field;
  • to ensure the implementation of active labour market policies in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "On Employment" in order to expand the employment opportunities of jobseekers and unemployed persons, ensure their professional orientation, professional training, increase their knowledge and skills, and form a workforce in accordance with the requirements of the labour market;
  • manage unemployment insurance funds, ensure the use of those funds for their purpose, including the financing of active labour market policies and the provision of insurance payments;
  • to create and use a vacancy bank based on employers' information about vacant and required jobs, as well as newly created jobs, to participate in the implementation of control measures in the field of detection and prevention of informal employment, as well as the legalization of informal employment;
  • to ensure the employment of persons who have special need for social protection and who have difficulty in finding a job in accordance with the quota established under the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "On Employment";
  • to improve the activity in the relevant field and increase transparency, as well as to take measures to improve the quality of the provided services and to implement them electronically;
  • to support innovative ideas and projects and to act in other directions defined in the Statute.

 

 

Address: Baku city, Satatin Asgarova street 85

Phone: (+994 12) 596 43 05