The Heads of Public Employment Services Meeting will be held in Vilnius

The Lithuanian Labour Exchange under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour together with the European Commission organize the Heads of Public Employment Services (HoPES) Meeting on 16th – 17th December. This is one of the employment events that Lithuania holds during the Presidency of the Council of the EU. The key issues of the meeting agenda are implementation of the “Youth Guarantee” initiative, following up to extraordinary meeting HoPES in Paris, the enhanced cooperation between Public Employment Services (PES), adoption of PES network work programme 2014, addressing the efficiency challenge, HoPES assessment report on PES capacities to implement the PES strategy “Europe 2020”. Ms Algimanta Pabedinskienė, Minister of Social Security and Labour and Mr Detlef Eckert, Director, DG Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion the European Commission, will welcome the participants of the meeting. …