December 22^nd

Nis City Council Member for Sports and Youth met today with the students of the Nis Faculty of Economics who won the second place at the international marketing competition held in the Portuguese City of Porto and congratulated them on excellent placement in Porto and expressed the readiness of the city to recognize the work of young and talented people and help in accordance with the possibilities. The Delegation of the Nis students was also assisted by the Nis City Youth Office as well as some of the city’s public companies. In the competition of 37 teams, young team from Nis won the second place, and their work presented a good practice of using marketing tools on the example of a successful company from Nis.

December 22^nd

The subsidies in the amount of 4.7 million dinars have been allocated from Nis City Budget by the Action Plan for Employment for 2016 for employers who will hire the unemployed persons from the hard-to-employ category including young people under 30, older than 50, workers declared redundant in their companies, members of Roma nationality, people with disabilities and working-age beneficiaries of financial social care assistance. The subsidies in the amount of 150,000 dinars per person are allocated for the employment of people with disabilities and 180,000 for the employment of working-age beneficiaries of financial social care assistance. In this way, 62 of our fellow citizens were hired by private citizens.  “The City of Nis, on the basis of the Employment Action Plan, has defined these funds because we want to establish stability and maintain a trend of growth in employment in the city, and in this way we also want to help those who, due to age, objectively have major problems with opportunities for employment, and also to encourage employers to hire individuals older than 50 years, and young people, without experience. Of course, the City will continue to help. Our goal is to train a large number of our fellow citizens for occupations that will be needed in the future, due to the arrival of new investments in our city.  Next year, three major investments will be realized and new jobs will be opened, which is our goal. We want to further develop the economy and create the conditions for our fellow citizens to be employed, to stop the outflow of young people abroad, “said Nis City Mayor Darko Bulatovic, who awarded contracts to the employers. He stressed that 30 347 persons are currently unemployed in Nis, which is less than last year and added that the realistic expectation was that this number would be even lower in 2017 due to new investments that would be realized. By establishing the Local Employment Council and adopting the Local Action Plan for Employment for this year, the City has in fact recognized the possibility of influencing the employment policy in its territory and establishing measures to reduce unemployment. 30 million dinars for incentives for employment will be allocated from the city budget for 2017.

December 22^nd

The Council for Human and Minority Rights, which was formed by the decision of the Nis City Council, after its constitution, adopted the plan and program of its work. According to the Nis City Council Member for Social Care Issues Tijana Djordjevic Ilic, who attended today’s council session, said that it was important for local self-government to constantly protect and promote the rights of national minorities in our city, especially in the fields of culture, education and information. “So far, we have tried to work together with the representatives of national minorities through the work of the Council for Human and Minority Rights on the city plans and programs that contribute to the achievement of national equality. The new council has been constituted recently and the goal of all of us together is to continue to promote mutual understanding and good relations among all the communities living in Nis, “said Djordjevic Ilić. She added: “I believe that the activities envisaged and the local action plans to be worked out will improve the position of national minorities and reduce the unacceptable differences between certain national minorities, as well as to annihilate the differences between the vulnerable categories of our fellow citizens.”